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14 1 was, as in times before, to spend my time in tears and 

 study. I received my admonition in silence, without making a 

 reply, I will not say from what motive, but fear it was more 

 independent than wise. I did not say, as I could have done, 

 that the Countess, all but an angel, from the purest and best of 

 motives, was the beginner and ender of the banquet ; that I, in 

 revealing the secret to my father, must have betrayed her ; and, 

 to sum up the whole, if he expected me to be so perfect in my 

 conduct towards Count Taxis, why was he not more so in that 

 with his beautiful illegitimate ? " 



The young lady goes on to describe her sufferings 

 from continued ill-health, from her sensitiveness, from 

 her father's disapproval of her innocent attentions to 

 Count Taxis, and from the rigidness of the diet to 

 which she was subjected. She grieved also at a pro- 

 spective separation from the Countess Nogarola, whose 

 husband, obliged to go to Italy on business, thought of" 

 taking his family with him. Dr. Haubenel proposed a 

 journey for her health, in which the Countess and her 

 father should be her companions. Accordingly, in a 

 pleasant season, they left Munich, in her father's car- 

 riage, with a maid and valet, and, driving a day's journey 

 to a beautiful seat of the Elector's, at Ammerland See, 

 they sent back their vehicle and servants, that they 

 might be more free in their movements. They had 

 the Elector's permission to make a temporary home 

 at this princely residence, where they had attendance, 

 with sumptuous fare, and fine scenery, and mountain 

 views. Miss Sarah writes that she exceedingly enjoyed 

 the change to freedom and nature, after eighteen months 

 of confinement to the artificial life of the city and the 

 lassitude of illness. The lake afforded them fine fish 

 for their table, and in an elegant pleasure-boat manned 



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