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sion of it. He said to me, * You seem very unhappy ! For 

 some time I remained quiet, then, thinking I had hit on a good 

 answer, replied, looking at Cora, 4 You gave me this little beast. 

 Is it your intention to take her away from me again ? ' My 

 father rose, and, in quitting me, said, 1 1 am not the cause of 

 your losing the Countess.' ' 



The Count, to divert the mind of his daughter, ar- 

 ranged another trip with her which showed his real 

 interest in her happiness and improvement, and also 

 afforded her enjoyment. He had invited temporarily 

 into his family, M. Quintin, one of the French nobles 

 driven away from France in the Revolution. " He 

 had resided in England and been naturalized, having 

 there taken the name above given ; otherwise he was 

 the Marquis of Chersena [?], a respectable character; at 

 this time not at his ease in point of property, but some 

 years after, at the Restoration, returning to France, he 

 was made Governor of the Tuileries, as His father had 

 been before him." 



M. Quintin was about to go to Vienna. He pro- 

 posed to descend the Iser as far as Passau on one of 

 the rafts by which the country people carried their 

 wood to market in Vienna. Little huts or shelters 

 were constructed on these rafts and made very con- 

 venient for travellers. The daughter was taken by 

 surprise, one morning, by finding herself with her father, 

 M. Quintin, and servants, on one of these rafts, on 

 which a hut had been constructed for her, floating down 

 the river. They carried also a curiously constructed 

 Russian carriage belonging to the Count. They de- 

 scended the Jser to its confluence with the Inn and the 

 Danube ; and there, bidding adieu to their friend, 

 they took post-horses on their way to Salzburg to see 



