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Sometimes he called on St Aubert, and soth, convinced hi to fear either for

hiht, in a

cottage on the skirts of the woods, returned to sup with his friends,

on such sober fare as the ht it prudent to set before them

While St Aubert was too much indisposed to share it, Eot herself; and Valancourt, silent and

thoughtful, yet never inattentive to them, appeared particularly

solicitous to accommodate and relieve St Aubert, who often observed,

while his daughter was pressing hi the pillow she

had placed in the back of his arm-chair, that Valancourt fixed on her a

look of pensive tenderness, which he was not displeased to understand

They separated at an early hour, and retired to their respective

apartments Emily was shown to hers by a nun of the convent, wholad to dismiss, for her heart was melancholy, and her attention

so er was painful She

thought her father daily declining, and attributed his present fatigue

more to the feeble state of his fraloomy ideas haunted her mind, till she fell asleep

In about two hours after, she akened by the chiallery, into which her chamber

opened She was so little accustomed to the manners of a convent, as to

be alarmed by this circuested that he was very ill, and she rose in haste to go to hiallery pass before