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St Aubert followed a gay Parisian servant to a parlour, where sat Mons

and Madame Quesnel, who received him with a stately politeness, and,

after a few forotten that

they ever had a sister

Emily felt tears swell into her eyes, and then resentment checked thenity without assu

importance, and Quesnel was depressed by his presence without exactly

knoherefore

After soeneral conversation, St Aubert requested to speak with hi left with Madae party was invited to dine at the chateau, and was co which was past and irreht to prevent the

festivity of the present hour

St Aubert, when he was told that coust and indignation against the insensibility of Quesnel,

which prompted him to return home immediately But he was informed, that

Madame Cheron had been asked to meet him; and, when he looked at Eht come when the enmity of her uncle would

be prejudicial to her, he determined not to incur it himself, by conduct

which would be resented as indecorous, by the very persons who now

showed so little sense of decoruentlemen, of

whom one was named Montoni, a distant relation of Madame Quesnel, a man

about forty, of an uncommonly handsome person, with features manly and

expressive, but whose countenance exhibited, upon the whole, htiness of command, and the quickness of discernni, his friend, appeared to be about thirty--inferior in

dignity, but equal to him in penetration of countenance, and superior in

insinuation of manner

Emily was shocked by the salutation hich Madame Cheron met her