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E its features, but she

knew not where to detect the charm that captivated her attention,

and inspired sentiments of such love and pity Dark brown hair played

carelessly along the open forehead; the nose was rather inclined to

aquiline; the lips spoke in a smile, but it was a melancholy one; the

eyes were blue, and were directed upwards with an expression of peculiar

meekness, while the soft cloud of the brow spoke of the fine sensibility

of the teof the garden gate; and, on turning her eyes to

the , she saw Valancourt coitated by the subjects that had lately occupied her mind, she felt

unprepared to see him, and remained a few moments in the chamber to

recover herself When she e that

appeared in his air and countenance since they had parted in Rousillon,

which twilight and the distress she suffered on the preceding evening

had prevented her frouor disappeared,

for a htened his countenance, on

perceiving her 'You see,' said he, 'I have availed myself of the

per YOU farewell, who only yesterday'

E, asked if he had

been long in Gascony 'A few days only,' replied Valancourt, while a

blush passed over his cheek 'I engaged in a long ra with the friends who had htful'