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from his boyish days, that he had in some instances sacrificed taste

to senti, and

interrupted the prospect; St Aubert had sometih to have wept at their fall In

addition to these larches he planted a little grove of beech, pine, and

bank of the

river, rose a plantation of orange, le, breathed delicious fragrance With these

were led a few trees of other species Here, under the ample shade

of a plane-tree, that spread its majestic canopy towards the river, St

Aubert loved to sit in the fine evenings of su, beneath its foliage, the setting sun, thefroht rey

Here, too, he loved to read, and to converse with Mada himself to the influence

of those sweet affections, which are ever attendant on simplicity and

nature He has often said, while tears of pleasure trembled in his eyes,

that these were htful than any passed amid

the brilliant and tumultuous scenes that are courted by the world His

heart was occupied; it had, what can be so rarely said, no wish for a

happiness beyond what it experienced The consciousness of acting right

diffused a serenity over hiselse could impart

to a man of moral perceptions like his, and which refined his sense of

every surrounding blessing