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Julia, whose beauty she iined had captivated the

count, and confirmed him in indifference towards herself, she

incessantly tormented by the exercise of those various and splenetic

little arts which elude the eye of the common observer, and are only

to be known by those who have felt them Arts, which individually are

inconsiderable, but in the aggregate amount to a cruel and decisive

effect From Julia's mind the idea of happiness was now faded Pleasure had

withdrawn her beaer

illumined by her ray, became dark and colourless As often as her

situation would perht the

freedohts,

and give a loose to that despair which is so apt to follow the

disappointment of our first hopes

Week after week elapsed, yet no th declared it his intention to spend the

remainder of the summer in the castle To this deternation, for she was here

surrounded by a croud of flatterers, and her invention supplied her

with continual diversions: that gaiety which rendered Naples so dear

to her, glittered in the woods of Mazzini, and resounded through the

castle T