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St Aubert could not reply: he caught Eether, but--they were not tears of sorrow After this language

of the heart, all other would have been feeble, and they remained silent

for some time Then, St Aubert conversed as before; for, if his mind

had not recovered its natural tranquillity, it at least assumed the

appearance of it

They reached the romantic town of Leucate early in the day, but St

Aubert eary, and they deter, he exerted hihter to view

the environs that overlook the lake of Leucate, the Mediterranean, part

of Rousillon, with the Pyrenees, and a wide extent of the luxuriant

province of Languedoc, now blushing with the ripened vintage, which the

peasants were beginning to gather St Aubert and E, that afted on the breeze, and

anticipated, with apparent pleasure, their next day's journey over this

gay region He designed, however, still to wind along the sea-shore

To return home immediately was partly his wish, but frothen the pleasure, which the journey gave

his daughter, and to try the effect of the sea air on his own disorder

On the following day, therefore, they reco the shores of the Mediterranean; the Pyrenees still

forround of their prospects, while on their

right was the ocean, and, on their left, wide extended plains