He passed a month in the Upper Engadine and encountered at Saint Moritz a charming young girl.

To this little person he began to pay, on the spot, particular attention: she struck him as exactly the household angel he had long been looking for.

He was never precipitate, he was nothing if not discreet, so he forbore for the present to declare his passion; but it seemed to him when they parted--the young lady to go down into Italy and her admirer to proceed to Geneva, where he was under bonds to join other friends--that he should be romantically wretched if he were not to see her again.

The simplest way to do so was to go in the autumn to Rome, where Miss Osmond was domiciled with her family.

Mr.
Rosier started on his pilgrimage to the Italian capital and reached it on the first of November.