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Though no longer suffered to doubt that they were addressed to herself,

she was as ignorant, as before, by whoht she heard the sound of a step without the building,

and again alarht up her lute, and hurried away Monsieur

and Mada the

sides of the glen

Having reached a green su

the vallies and plains of Gascony, they seated themselves on the turf;

and while their eyes wandered over the glorious scene, and they inhaled

the sweet breath of flowers and herbs that enriched the grass, E several of their favourite airs, with the delicacy of

expression in which she so much excelled

Music and conversation detained theht slept upon the plains; till the white sails that glided

beneath the loo stole over the landscape It was a loom St Aubert and his faret; alas! Madame St Aubert knew not that she left it for ever

When they reached the fishing-house she missed her bracelet, and

recollected that she had taken it from her arm after dinner, and had

left it on the table when she went to walk After a long search, in

which En herself to the

loss of it What made this bracelet valuable to her was a hter to which it was attached, estee resemblance,

and which had been painted only a few months before When Eone, she blushed, and beca-house, during

her absence, her lute, and the additional lines of a pencil, had already