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neither hear nor see any thing, and can in short be scarcely conscious

of life' 'I live for my family and myself,' said St Aubert; 'I am now contented

to know only happiness;--formerly I knew life'

'I mean to expend thirty or forty thousand livres on i to notice the words of St Aubert; 'for I

design, next su here my friends, the Duke de Durefort and

the Marquis Ramont, to pass a month or tith me' To St Aubert's

enquiry, as to these intended improvements, he replied, that he should

take down the whole east wing of the chateau, and raise upon the site

a set of stables 'Then I shall build,' said he, 'a SALLE A MANGER, a

SALON, a SALLE AU COMMUNE, and a number of rooms for servants; for at

present there is not accommodation for a third part of my own people'

'It accorieved that

the old mansion was to be thus improved, 'and that was not a sed since those days,' said M

Quesnel;--'as then thought a decent style of living would not now

be endured' Even the caler soon yielded to conteround about the chateau is

encumbered with trees; I mean to cut some of them down'