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The stranger said, that what inforive was entirely at

his service; and then mentioned a road rather more to the east, which

led to a tohence it would be easy to proceed into Rousillon

They now arrived at the village, and coht's lodging In several, which they

entered, ignorance, poverty, and mirth seemed equally to prevail; and

the owners eyed St Aubert with alike a bed could be found, and he had ceased to enquire for

one, when Euor of her father's

countenance, and lamented, that he had taken a road so ill provided

with the coes, which they

exa of

two rooms, if such they could be called; the first of these occupied by

enerally consisted of

six or eight children, with their parents, who slept on beds of skins

and dried beech leaves, spread upon a ed, through an aperture in the roof; and

here the scent of spirits (for the travelling slers, who haunted the

Pyrenees, had made this rude people faenerally perceptible enough Emily turned from such scenes, and

looked at her father with anxious tenderness, which the young stranger