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St Aubert, whose anxiety for his wife overcame every other

consideration, detained the physician in his house He res and the reflections that had called a loom upon his

-house, in company

with Madame St Aubert, and he now admitted a presentiment, that this

illness would be a fatal one But he effectually concealed this frohter, whom he endeavoured to re-animate with hopes

that her constant assiduities would not be unavailing The physician,

when asked by St Aubert for his opinion of the disorder, replied,

that the event of it depended upon circumstances which he could not

ascertain

Madame St Aubert seeave hints of this She frequently fixed them upon her

anxious friends with an expression of pity, and of tenderness, as if she

anticipated the sorrow that awaited them, and that sees, that she regretted life On

the seventh day, the disorder was at its crisis The physician assuraver manner, which she observed, and took occasion, when her family

had once quitted the chamber, to tell hi 'Do not atte survive I a, I hope,

been preparing for it Since I have not long to live, do not suffer a

mistaken compassion to induce you to flatter my family with false hopes

If you do, their affliction will only be the heavier when it arrives: I