But As Soon As She Had, By Degrees, Recollected Herself, She Modestly Related All That Had Happened To Her From The Time She Left Him; - The Methods By Which She Endeavoured To Earn Her Bread, - The Insults She Was Exposed To At Mrs.

C - l - ge's; - the way she came acquainted with Melanthe; - the kindness shown her by that lady; - their travels

Together; - the base stratagem made use of by count de Bellfleur to ruin her with that lady - the honourable position monsieur du Plessis had professed for her; - the seasonable assistance he had given her, in that iminent danger she was in from the count's unlawful designs upon her; - his placing her afterwards in the monastry, - the treachery of the abbess; - the artifice she had been obliged to make use of to get out of the nunnery; - her pilgrimage; - in fine, concealed no part of her adventures, only that which related to the passion she had for du Plessis, which she endeavoured, as much as she could, to disguise, under the names of gratitude for the obligations he had conferred upon her, and admiration of his virtue, so different from what she had found in others who had addressed her.

Dorilaus, however, easily perceived the tenderness with which she was agitated on the account of that young gentleman, but he would not excite her blushes by taking any notice of it, especially as he found nothing to condemn in it, and had observed, throughout the course of her whole narrative, she had behaved on other occasions with a discretion far above her years, he was far from wronging her, by suspecting she had swerved from it in this.

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