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I have had a great deal of conversation with Count Altenberg since I spoke of him to you last, and I am confirmed in my opinion that he merely feels the curiosity natural to an enlightened traveller to become acquainted with Mr. Percy, a man who has been described to him as a person of abilities.
At length he turned from the ladies to the gentlemen for assistance. "Mr. Temple, I am sure you will join my entreaties Count Altenberg " Count Altenberg "would not presume to ask a favour, which had been refused to the commissioner and to Mrs. Falconer." Caroline understood, and gave him credit for his politeness.
I asked Temple whether Lord Oldborough had heard any thing of Count Altenberg since his return to his own country. Yes one private letter to Lord Oldborough, from which nothing had transpired but one line of general thanks for civilities received in England.
"If I had ever doubted that truth," said Count Altenberg, "I should have been convinced of it by what I have seen and heard this night." Miss Georgiana Falconer bowed her head graciously to the Count, and smiled, and sighed.
As unlike your Count Altenberg as possible an oddish looking genius oldish, too like one's idea of an alchymist, or a professor, or a conjuror like any thing rather than a man of fashion; but, nevertheless, since he has got into fashion, the ladies have all found out that he is very like a Roman emperor and so he is like any head on an old coin."
Falconer's character, could have seen all that Alfred saw. Perhaps the interest he began to take about Count Altenberg, who was the grand object of all her operations, increased his penetration. While the count was engaged in earnest political conversation in one of the inner rooms with the commissioner, Mrs. Falconer besought the Miss La Grandes to favour the company.
The prescient jealousy of Miss Georgiana Falconer boded ill of this visit to Hungerford Castle. A few days afterwards a note was received from Count Altenberg, returning many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Falconer for the civilities he had received from them, paying all proper compliments to Zara, announcing his intention of accepting an invitation to stay some time at Mrs.
"Yes, a pair of blue damask shoes as old as Edward the Fourth's time with chains from the toe to the knee, you know or do you know, Count Altenberg? Miss Percy was describing them she saw Colonel Hungerford put them on Oh! he must put them on for me I'll make him put them on, chains and all, to-morrow." "Colonel Hungerford is on his way to India by this time," said Georgiana Falconer, drily.
Hungerford saw none of these capricious fancies, and that it was not her imagination, but her reason which gave Count Altenberg the exalted place he held in her esteem. It was therefore with pleasure, that this kind lady perceived, that her young friend's residence with her soothed her mind and restored it to its former tone.
But, supposing that he was content to bound his happiness, inelegant and low, to such narrow limits, Count Altenberg observed, he did not provide for the security even of that poor portion.
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