it is now
too late, and all I can do is to prevent your ever meeting more:--this,
Horatio, is all I have to say, and that if in any other affair I can be
serviceable to you, communicate your request in writing, and depend on
its being granted.

In speaking these last words he withdrew, and left Horatio in a
situation of mind not easy to be conceived.--He was once about to
entreat him to turn back, but had nothing to offer which could make him
hope would prevail on him to alter his resolution.--He never had been
insensible of the vast disparity there was at present between him and
the noble family of de Palfoy: he could expect no other, or rather worse
treatment than what he had now received, if his passion was ever
discovered, and had no excuse to make for what himself allowed so great
a presumption.

With a countenance dejected, and a heart oppressed with various
agitations, did he quit the house which contained what was most valuable
to him in the world, while poor Charlotta endured, if possible, a
greater shock.

The baron de Palfoy, now convinced that all he had been informed of was
true, was more incensed against her than he had been on the mistaken
supposition of her being influenced in favour of monsieur de Coigney: he
had no sooner left Horatio than he flew to her apartment, and reproached
her in terms the most severe that words could form.--It was in vain she
protested that she never had any design of giving herself to Horatio
without having first received his permission.--He looked on all she said
as an augmentation of her crime, and soon came to a determination to put
it past her power to give him more than she had already done.

Early next morning he sent her, under the conduct of a person he could
confide in, to a monastry about thirty miles from Paris, without even
letting her know whither she was about being carried, or giving her the
least notice of her departure till the coach was at the door, into which
he put, her himself with these words,--adeiu Charlotta, expect not to
see Paris, or me again, till you desire no more to see Horatio.

CHAP. X.

_The reasons that induced Horatio to leave France; with the chevalier
St. George's behaviour on knowing his resolution. He receives an
unexpected favour from the baron de Palfoy._

While Charlotta, under the displeasure of her father, and divided, as
she believed, for ever from her lover, was pursuing her melancholy
journey, Horatio was giving way