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she opened her door, her thoughts, in the mean time, recovered from the

confusion of sleep, and she understood that the bell was the call of

the ain still,

she forbore to go to St Aubert's room Her ht, that shone into her chamber,

invited her to open the casement, and look out upon the country

It was a still and beautiful night, the sky was unobscured by any cloud,

and scarce a leaf of the woods beneath treht hymn of the monks rose softly from a chapel,

that stood on one of the lower cliffs, an holy strain, that seeht to heaven, and her thoughts ascended

with it From the consideration of His works, her oodness and poherever she turned

her viehether on the sleeping earth, or to the vast regions of

space, gloorlds beyond the reach of huht, the

sublimity of God, and the majesty of His presence appeared Her eyes

were filled with tears of awful love and admiration; and she felt that

pure devotion, superior to all the distinctions of human system, which

lifts the soul above this world, and seems to expand it into a nobler

nature; such devotion as can, perhaps, only be experienced, when

the mind, rescued, for a moment, from the humbleness of earthly

considerations, aspires to conteoodness in the infinity of His blessings