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[Dellapaolera <hou...@au...>]

K it to me. Tell me how to forget and how to annihilate thought. Do you not know that I had planned a life of perfect
happiness with you by my side? I had visions; and now plans and visions are alike hateful to me. And as they ever and anon recur
to my memory, they will fill me with terror and despair." As Diana heard these words of agony, a wild
gleam of triumph shot from her eyes, but it faded away quickly, and left her cold and emotionless as a marble statue; and when she reappeared in the drawing-room,

after taking leave of Norbert, her face
wore so satisfied an expression, that the Viscount complimented her upon her apparent happiness. She

made some jesting retort, but there was a shade of earnestness mixed with her playfulness, for to her future husband she only wished to

show the amiable side of her character;

but all the time she was thinking. Will Norbert see Daumon in time? The Duke kept his word, and the next day the faithful Jean discreetly
handed her a packet. She opened it and found that besides the two letters of which the Counsellor had spoken, it

contained all her correspondence with Norbert--more than a hundred letters in all, some of
great length, and all of them compromising

to a certain extent. Her first thought was to destroy them, but on reflection
she decided not to do so, and hid the packet in the same place as she had concealed the letters written by Norbert to her. Norbert
had given Daumon sixty
thousand francs, and in addition owed him twenty

thousand on his promissory
notes. This sum, in addition to what he had already saved, would form such a snug little fortune that it would
enable the Counsellor to quit Bevron, and take up his abode in Paris, where his peculiar talents would have more scope for development. And eight days later the village was thrown into a state of intense excitement by the fact becoming known that Daumon

had shut up his house and departe