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Retired to her lonely cabin, her hts still hovered

round the body of her deceased parent; and, when she sunk into a kind

of slu ht she saw her father approaching her with a benign countenance;

then, s upwards, his lips moved, but,

instead of words, she heard sweet music borne on the distant air, and

presently saw his features gloith the

The strain seeone, but ht

breathe She doubted, listened, raised herself in the bed, and again

listened It was ination After

a soleain, in mournful

sweetness, and then died, in a cadence, that see soul to heaven She instantly ree circu conversation it had led to, concerning the state of

departed spirits All that St Aubert had said, on that subject, now

pressed upon her heart, and overwhele in a few

hours! He, who then could only conjecture, was now made acquainted with

truth; was himself become one of the departed! As she listened, she was

chilled with superstitious awe, her tears stopped; and she rose, and

went to the