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which hung from the ceiling to the floor, across the whole breadth of the apartment, which, unlike every other young Vallenstein had hitherto seen in the palace, had bare plastered walls, on which were drawn figures to him inexplicable, and words of which he knew not the meaning: the uncarpeted floor exhibited similar signs and words, and all the furniture consisted of the table at which the Duke and Fieramosca had pursued their mysterious studies, and the stools on which they had been seated, except celestial globes of various sizes, books, charts, with different representations of the planets, and corresponding symptoms of the astrological calculations in which the students had been interrupted.

Before the elder Vallenstein recovered his surprise sufficiently to welcome his son, a brief whisper was exchanged with his colleague; then he took the arm of Casimir in silence, and, with somewhat of fierceness in his aspect, turned from

the apartment. Accustomed as young Vallenstein had been to submit to all the austerities of military discipline beneath his father's rule, there was something wounding to his affection in this cold, haughty, nay, almost unkind, reception; but he resolved to await patiently the result: and, as they walked together through the long range of apartments, he employed himself in recollecting his thoughts and poising his mind: they arrived at length at a small but splendid cabinet.

"Here," said the Duke, "we may be unmolested till dinner time-if, indeed, any place may be held sacred from intrusion!"

Chilled and repulsed, Vallensteïn felt not only his affection but the pride of his heart outraged by the manner in which his father received him.

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"I trust," said he coldly, your Excellency will not visit your page's fault with rigour.-I alone am to blame.-I

alone was guilty of the error of supposing your only son, especially, the events considered which have intervened since our separation, might have formed an exception to the prohibitory orders which govern your household. One lesson, however, suffices: trust me, my Lord, I shall not forget it."

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No, Count! pardon me; the blame does not rest with you! You came hither in total ignorance of the imperative regulations I have thought it meet to institute in my palace. That boy Devereux presumes on my favour and confidence, and must be checked.-So, sir, you are come to visit a ruined man: to look upon the wreck of a stately vessel.-Now solve me this problem: whether is a great man greater in prosperity or adversity? But peradventure, you will stay with me, and take time to observe."

"A great man, my Lord, with submission, as I understand the phrase, is the same through all fortunes; neither in

toxicated and elated by the prosperous, nor soured by the evil. In the first position I have followed your march with an admiration such as no other character has ever excited in me :-in the second, I doubt not you will prove equal to yourself."

"It is well, Casimir! your theory is excellent! but, although the same heart may be in us through all fortunes, more difference in our bearing is requisite than mere school philosophy teaches. For instance, in prosperity a great man should be affable, popular, careless of pageantry, ready to bend, because it is always at his option to stand erect. In adversity, pride becomes him, he should be stern, dignified, resolved, inaccessible, and every thing he speaks or acts should remind those around him that his power is not departed from him.”

Casimir bowed in silence: he now held the key to that which had so puzzled him; but whether the change which had

taken place in his father was produced by events on his temper, or whether, as he would have it appear, was the effect of a system, was more than might easily be penetrated. From present appearances young Vallenstein had but little encouragement to suppose that his haughty parent would interest himself in the adventures which had befallen him since they parted, or even vouchsafe them a hearing he was however mistaken, for the duke inquired with a sort of lukewarm kindness respecting his success. When he named the man who had superseded his addresses, assumed his name, and taken his place at Marchfeldt, he was interrupted by the question,

"Have Wolfstein and you been for any time at variance ?"

"From the hour on which we first beheld each other."

"That is strange! Wolfstein was much in my confidence, yet he never betrayed his enmity to you-indeed, I cannot call

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