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88 ALFRED DE ROSANN. that a young heart was filled with his image, and that he was the innocent cause of pain to the unfortunate victim of a love whose increasing fervour experienced no return. CHAPTER IX. THE RESULT. Dr Rosann did not awake till a late hour; and some minutes elapsed ere he could compose his ideas, so as to review his conduct of the preceding evening. The certainty that he had made a deep impression upon the heart of the too sensitive Selina, was a sub- ject of much more grief to our hero than the proba- bility of being shortly obliged to risk his life in a duel, His generous disposition could not do other- wise than sincerely commiserate the situation of the unfortunate girl, and- deeply deplore her misplaced affections. He therefore made up his mind to seek an explanation with her as speedily as possible. That explanation he might readily bring about by hinting at his attachment to Eloise—a circumstance as yet unrevealed even to Mr. Robson; and, in case the reader should marvel at this silence and reserve to- wards so excellent a friend, let us hasten to apologize for our hero. He had retained his love-affair in his own breast, fearful that if Mrs. Clayton should acci- dentally have occasion to correspond with Mr. Rob- son, the circumstance might reach her ears; and De Rosann knew she would naturally be offended at his presumption in declaring he was destined to receive the hand of Eloise, when the mother so positively refused to listen to his suit in favour of her daughter. He now repented of this excess of delicacy; he re- proached himself for not having merely hinted, a few ECOmiGbooks.com