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His heart being thus disburdened , and his impatience gratified , he became so calm and composed , that Don Diego was equally pleased and astonished at the air of serenity with which he came forth , and embraced him with warm acknowledgments of his goodness and attachment . He frankly owned , that his mind was now more at ease than he had ever found it , since he first received the fatal intimation of his loss ; that a few such feasts would entirely moderate the keen appetite of his sorrow , which he would afterwards feed with less precipitation . He also imparted to the Castilian the plan of a monument , which he had designed for the incomparable Monimia ; and Don Diego was so much struck with the description , that he solicited his advice in projecting another , of a different nature , to be erected to the memory of his own ill-fated wife and daughter , should he ever be able to re-establish himself in Spain . While they amused themselves with this sort of conversation , the physician returned with the coach , and accompanied them back to their inn , where he left them to their repose , after having promised to call again at noon , and conduct Renaldo to the house of Madam Clement , the benefactress of Monimia , to whom he eagerly desired to be introduced . The appointment was observed with all imaginable punctuality on both sides . Melvil had arrayed himself in a suit of deep mourning , and he found the good lady in the like habit , assumed upon the same occasion . The goodness of her heart was manifest in her countenance ; the sensibility of the youth discovered itself in a flood of tears , which he shed at her appearance .