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After e, dinner was

served It was a repast, to which gratitude, for being again perave sweetness; and family happiness once more

smiled beneath these shades Monsieur St Aubert conversed with unusual

cheerfulness; every object delighted his senses The refreshing pleasure

from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the

confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as

the descriptions, of those in health The green woods and pastures; the

flowery turf; the blue concave of the heavens; the balmy air; the murmur

of the limpid stream; and even the hum of every little insect of the

shade, seem to revivify the soul, and make mere existence bliss

Madame St Aubert, reanimated by the cheerfulness and recovery of her

husband, was no longer sensible of the indisposition which had lately

oppressed her; and, as she sauntered along the alks of this

rohter, she often

looked at theree of tenderness, that filled her

eyes with tears St Aubert observed this ently

reproved her for the emotion; but she could only smile, clasp his hand,

and that of Emily, and weep theupon hiree that became almost painful; his

features assu--'Perhaps I shall some time look back to these ret But let me not misuse

them by useless anticipation; let me hope I shall not live to mourn the

loss of those who are dearer to e, the pensive temper of his mind, he

bade Emily fetch the lute she kne to touch with such sweet pathos