ABSTRACT
AFTER a repast, rather hospitable than splendid, during which the looks of paternal admiration and tenderness with which the Count observed every action of Anzoletta, and her innocent and agreeable vivacity, rendered them both more attractive to Willoughby: Monsieur de Bellegarde, finding that Willoughby rather wished to listen to the history he had promised, than to take any repose, during the heat of the day, proposed retiring to the north gallery, and there beginning this interesting account. Willoughby most readily agreed to the plan – and the Count, dismissing his daughter and her governess, led him thither.a
