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make it an article in the contract, that the chateau should always

be hers He then gave her a more minute account of his present

circu, 'The two hundred louis, with

what money you will now find in my purse, is all the ready money I have

to leave you I have told you how I am circumstanced with M Motteville,

at Paris Ah, my child! I leave you poor--but not destitute,' he added,

after a long pause E he now said,

but knelt at the bed-side, with her face upon the quilt, weeping over

the hand she held there

After this conversation, the mind of St Aubert appeared to be , he sunk into a kind

of doze, and Eentle

tap at the chamber-door roused her It was La Voisin, co convent was below, ready to attend St

Aubert Emily would not suffer her father to be disturbed, but desired,

that the priest e When St Aubert awoke from

this doze, his senses were confused, and it was some moments before he

recovered them sufficiently to know, that it was Emily who sat beside

him