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Before them, extended the valley they had quitted; its rocks, and woods

to the left, just silvered by the rays, formed a contrast to the deep

shadow, that involved the opposite cliffs, whose fringed suht; while the distant perspective of the valley was

lost in the yellow ht The travellers sat for some time

wrapt in the complacency which such scenes inspire

'These scenes,' said Valancourt, at length, 'soften the heart, like the

notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no

person, who had felt it once, would resign for the gayest pleasures

They waken our best and purest feelings, disposing us to benevolence,

pity, and friendship Those whom I love--I always seem to love more in

such an hour as this' His voice trembled, and he paused

St Aubert was silent; Emily perceived a warm tear fall upon the hand he

held; she knew the object of his thoughts; hers too had, for some time,

been occupied by the remembrance of her mother He seemed by an effort

to rouse hih, 'the