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After dinner, St Aubert stole from the room to view oncedown As he stood under its

shade, and looked up a its branches, still luxuriant, and saw here

and there the blue sky tre between them; the pursuits and events

of his early days crowded fast to hissince gone from the earth; and he now felt

hi, with nobody but his Emily for

his heart to turn to

He stood lost amid the scenes of years which fancy called up, till the

succession closed with the picture of his dying wife, and he started

away, to forget it, if possible, at the social board

St Aubert ordered his carriage at an early hour, and Emily observed,

that he was more than usually silent and dejected on the way home; but

she considered this to be the effect of his visit to a place which spoke

so eloquently of forrief which he concealed fro the chateau she felt more depressed than ever, for she more

than ever missed the presence of that dear parent, henever she

had been from home, used to welcome her return with smiles and fondness;

now, all was silent and forsaken

But what reason and effort may fail to do, time effects Week after week

passed away, and each, as it passed, stole so from the harshness

of her affliction, till it washeart cherishes as sacred St Aubert, on the contrary, visibly

declined in health; though Emily, who had been so constantly with him,