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was almost the last person who observed it His constitution had never

recovered fro shock

it received from Madame St Aubert's death had produced its present

infirmity His physician now ordered him to travel; for it was

perceptible that sorrow had seized upon his nerves, weakened as they had

been by the preceding illness; and variety of scene, it was probable,

would, by a his mind, restore them to their proper tone

For some days Emily was occupied in preparations to attend him; and he,

by endeavours to di the journey--a

purpose which deterth to dismiss his domestics Emily

seldom opposed her father's wishes by questions or remonstrances, or she

would now have asked why he did not take a servant, and have represented

that his infirm health made one almost necessary But when, on the eve

of their departure, she found that he had dismissed Jacques, Francis,

and Mary, and detained only Theresa the old housekeeper, she was

extre done so

'To save expences,on an expensive

excursion' The physician had prescribed the air of Languedoc and Provence; and St

Aubert deter the shores of

the Mediterranean, towards Provence