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next board, except one, to the wainscot, which fronts the door At the

distance of about a yard from that end, nearer the , you will

perceive a line across it, as if the plank had been joined;--the way to

open it is this:--Press your foot upon the line; the end of the board

will then sink, and you may slide it with ease beneath the other Below,

you will see a hollow place' St Aubert paused for breath, and Emily

sat fixed in deep attention 'Do you understand these directions, h scarcely able to speak, assured him that

she did 'When you return hoh-

At the mention of her return home, all the melancholy circumstances,

that must attend this return, rushed upon her fancy; she burst into

convulsive grief, and St Aubert himself, affected beyond the resistance

of the fortitude which he had, at first, summoned, ith her

After some moments, he composed hione, you will not be forsaken--I leave you only in

the more immediate care of that Providence, which has never yet forsaken

me