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Emily followed to the parlour, where the nuns were asse, 'This is a daughter, for whom I have

much esteem; be sisters to her'

They passed on in a train to the chapel, where the solemn devotion, with

which the service was perforht to it

the coht came on, before the abbess's kindness would suffer Emily to

depart, when she left the convent, with a heart hter than she

had entered it, and was reconducted by La Voisin through the woods, the

pensive gloom of which was in unison with the temper of hersilence, till her guide

suddenly stopped, looked round, and then struck out of the path into the

high grass, saying he had mistaken the road He noalked on quickly,

and E with difficulty over the obscured and uneven

ground, was left at some distance, till her voice arrested hi to stop, and still hurried on 'If you are in doubt

about the way,' said Emily, 'had we not better enquire it at the chateau

yonder, between the trees?'

'No,' replied La Voisin, 'there is no occasion When we reach that

brook, ht upon the water there, beyond the

woods) e reach that brook, we shall be at home presently I don't

kno I happened to mistake the path; I seldoh,' said Emily, 'but you have no banditti here'