Genlis, Stephanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint Aubir O R, STORIES O F INSTRUCTION AND DELIGHT. BEING LES VEILLÉES DU CHATEAU, WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY MADAME LA COMTESSE DE GENLIS, AUTHOR OF THE THEATRE OF EDUCATION, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY THOMAS HOLCROFT. Come raccende il gusto il mutare esca, Così mi par, che la mia Iftoria, quanto Meno a chi l'udirà nojosa fia. As at the board, with plenteous Viands grac'd, VOL. II. ARIOSTO. HOOLE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. ROBINSON, N° 25, PATER-NOSTER-ROW. MDCCLXXXV. Blackwell 11-13-31 24855 THE TALES OF THE CASTLE: STORIES OF INSTRUCTION AND DELIGHT. LEONTINE AND EUGENIA, M OR, THE MASQUERADE HABIT. ADAME de Palmena, yet young, though long a widow, dedicated her days to the education of an only daughter, the beloved object of all her tenderness and all her attention. Her husband dying left her deeply in debt, and Madame de Palmena had no other means of paying his debts, but by quitting Paris, and retiring to an eftate fhe poffeffed in Touraine, a fhort league from VOL. II. B |