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the Pyrenean Alps; as he spoke of which there was often a tremulous

tenderness in his voice, and soenius, soh he continued to speak This subject recalled forcibly to

Ee appeared in every landscape,

which Valancourt particularized, whose relowed in her heart Her silence, at length,

reminded Valancourt how nearly his conversation approached to the

occasion of her grief, and he changed the subject, though for one

scarcely less affecting to Erandeur of the

plane-tree, that spread its wide branches over the terrace, and under

whose shade they now sat, she remembered how often she had sat thus with

St Aubert, and heard him express the same admiration

'This was a favourite tree with my dear father,' said she; 'he used to

love to sit under its foliage with his fas of sus, and was silent; had she raised her

eyes froround she would have seen tears in his He rose, and

leaned on the wall of the terrace, from which, in a few ain, and appeared to be greatly

agitated; while Emily found her spirits so much depressed, that several

of her attempts to renew the conversation were ineffectual Valancourt

again sat down, but was still silent, and tre voice, 'This lovely scene!--I a to leave--to

leave you--perhaps for ever! These h I scarcely dare to availthe delicacy of your sorrow, venture to

declare the adoodness--O! that at

soht be permitted to call it love!'