Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 281: what you’re looking at

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— we eee ee AGNES; OB, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. 273 We im i | Backssider ! alone! JI have a deep and imperishable sense of all the obligations which I owe your lordship :— to you am I indebted for the bread which in my youthful years I ate, as well as for the education which prepared me for the priesthood dg “Speak nct of all this, my young friend !”’ said the Count. ‘“ Were you not the orphan son of my old patriot friend?—and when vour father lay upon his death bed, did I not pledge myself to take charge of your welfare? No more therefore upon that point! It is no political service which I now demand of you: but there is another ser- vice which you can render me - “Name it, my lord!” said the young priest, with all the enthusiasm of a graieful heart; “and you shall sce how readily I will perform it. But, No. 35.—AGNEs. My political faith is still as strong as | my religious creed: but no man can serve two| masters—and it is my duty to hold unto the latter | ans A SO = = ae, —S Saa C2 wae ———— a Za es ZZ eZ EN OFFA a: Vom. \a i) ——— melhores < aS awww —- Oh! it grieves me to observe the look of care which is upon your countenance—that expression of suffering which has just swept over your fea- tures ™ “T have indeed suffered much,” responded the Count of Camerino, in a deep sombre voice,—“ not merely for my country’s sake—not merely as an exile from my native land—but—but—otherwise, my young friend —in my domestic circum- stances Za “My lord, what mean you?” asked Falconara, with a look of the most unfeigned astonishment. “Spare me the pain of explanations,” said the Count; “and suffer me to demand at your hands the service I require without entering into those particulars which will only probe the wounds that are still fresh and bleedirg in my heart!” The young priest gazed with the deepest sorrow upon the countenance of his benefactor: but he CoMmiclooolks