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To this spot he had been attached from his infancy He had often made

excursions to it when a boy, and the iiven to his

rey-headed peasant, to whom it

was intrusted, and whose fruit and crea circu

which he had so often bounded in the exultation of health, and youthful

freedoed

that pensivefeature of his

character--the alks of the mountains, the river, on whose waves he

had floated, and the distant plains, which seemed boundless as his early

hopes--were never after reret At length he disengaged himself from the world, and retired

hither, to realize the wishes of , as it then stood, was er by its neat si scene; and considerable additions were necessary to make it

a comfortable family residence St Aubert felt a kind of affection for

every part of the fabric, which he remembered in his youth, and would

not suffer a stone of it to be re,

adapted to the style of the old one, forant residence The taste of Mada, where the same chaste simplicity was observable

in the furniture, and in the few ornaments of the apartments, that

characterized the manners of its inhabitants

The library occupied the west side of the chateau, and was enriched by