ABSTRACT
The evening of the following day D’Alonville and his companions arrived at Dresden. The Abbé de St. Remi had some acquaintance there, to whom he immediately went; and who, as soon as they knew he had two friends with him, sent to desire they might see them also, as they were people of very high rank. De Touranges with some difficulty was prevailed upon to accept the offered hospitality; but D’Alonville, who wished to see the town, of which he had heard much, excused himself, as being confined to the hours of a private family, would have interfered too much with his design of visiting whatever was curious or worth seeing. The Abbé left him with reluctance, to wander alone round Dresden for the little time he stayed; but his solitary excursions were hardly begun on the morning after his arrival, when in one of the squares he met Mr. Ellesmere, who seemed glad to renew their acquaintance. This meeting produced another; and every time they met, the mutual liking they had conceived for each other encreased; and after the third, such a degree of confidence was produced, that D’Alonville gave to his new friend a brief sketch of his melancholy history.
