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When he returned, his countenance had recovered its usual serenity; he

took E, and soon

after called to the

a road a the mountains towards Rousillon Michael said, there were

several that way, but he did not kno far they extended, or even

whether they were passable; and St Aubert, who did not intend to travel

after sun-set, asked what village they could reach about that time The

muleteer calculated that they could easily reach Mateau, which was in

their present road; but that, if they took a road that sloped more to

the south, towards Rousillon, there was a ha shut in

St Aubert, after some hesitation, deter finished his ain

set forward, but soon stopped; and St Aubert saw hi over their way Having concluded

his devotions, he sh road, and the pain of his poor , rattled, in a full gallop, along the edge of a precipice,

which it made the eye dizzy to look down E; and St Aubert, apprehending still greater danger fro the driver, was coth and discretion of the reater portion of the latter quality than their master; for

they carried the travellers safely into the valley, and there stopped

upon the brink of the rivulet that watered it

Leaving the splendour of extensive prospects, they now entered this

narrow valley screened by Rocks on rocks piled, as if by reen