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Adjoining the eastern side of the green-house, looking towards the

plains of Languedoc, was a room, which Es, her musical instruments, with some

favourite birds and plants Here she usually exercised herself in

elegant arts, cultivated only because they were congenial to her taste,

and in which native genius, assisted by the instructions of Monsieur

and Madame St Aubert, made her an early proficient The s of

this room were particularly pleasant; they descended to the floor, and,

opening upon the little lawn that surrounded the house, the eye was led

between groves of al-ash, and myrtle, to the

distant landscape, where the Garonne wandered

The peasants of this gay cli, when

the day's labour was done, dancing in groups on the htly ure of

their dances, with the tasteful and capricious ave a character to the scene entirely

French

The front of the chateau, which, having a southern aspect, opened upon

the grandeur of the round floor by a

rustic hall, and two excellent sitting rooe had no second story, was laid out in bed-chambers, except one

apartenerally used for a

breakfast-rooround, St Aubert had made very tasteful

improvements; yet, such was his attachment to objects he had remembered