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The Count of Walstliim was tlic declared lover 

 ^ud intended spouse of Amelia de Nordbourg, a 

 young lady possessing all the charms necessary for 

 the heroine of a modern novel, excepting that she 

 took delight in creating little jealousies in the breast 

 of her destined husband. As the beautiful Amelia 

 was an only child of a widowed mother, a female 

 cousin, possessing but few personal charms, and 

 still less fortune, had been brought up with her 

 from infancy as a companion, and as a stimulus to 

 her education. The amiable and humble Charlotte 

 was too insignificant to attract much attention in 

 the circles in which her gay cousin shone with so 

 much splendour, which gave her frequent oppor- 

 tunities of dispensing a part of that instruction she 

 had received on the more humble class of her own 

 sex. Returning from one of these charitable visits, 

 and entering the gay saloon of her aunt, where her 

 entry or exit was now scarcely noticed, she found 

 the party amused in selecting flowers, whilst the 

 Count and the other beaux were to make verses on 

 the choice of each of the ladies. Charlotte was 

 desired to make her selection of a flower; the 

 sprightly Amelia had taken a Hose ; others a Car- 

 nation, a Lily, or the flowers most likely to call 

 forth compliment ; and the delicate idea of Char- 

 lotte in selecting the most humble flower, by placing 

 a sprig of Mignonette in her bosom, would proba- 



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