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THE HORRID MYSTERIES.


CHAPTER II.

COUNT S******, an uncommon handsome and amiable young man, served as volunteer under Crillon in the famous siege of Gibraltar; and when the latter was forced by Elliot to abandon his plan of taking that impregnable fortress, left the service, and took the resolution to travel through Portugal, and then to return, by way of Spain and France, to his German estates in his native country.

He finished his travels in the latter end of summer. I was enraptured to embrace him once more, and found him by far handsomer and more amiable than he had left me, frequently joking with him about the amorous adventures he had probably met with abroad, and, most likely, would meet at home. He returned these jokes; yet I frequently saw, during the sallies of a lively and good-natured wit, something sparkle in his eyes that resembled a tear. Having, however, great reason to imagine

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