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upon Emily When the repast, which was rendered ostentatious by the

attendance of a great number of servants, and by a profusion of plate,

was over, Madame Cheron retired to her chamber, and a fe passed up a large stair-case, and

through several galleries, they cae in a remote part of the chateau, and there

the servant opened the door of a small chamber, which she said was

Ma'aed the tears she had

long tried to restrain

Those, who know, from experience, how much the heart becomes attached

even to inani accustons them; hoith the sensations of an old friend it

meets them, after temporary absence, will understand the forlornness

of Es, of Emily shut out from the only home she had

known fro persons,

disagreeable for more qualities than their novelty Her father's

favourite dog, now in the chamber, thus seemed to acquire the character

and importance of a friend; and, as the animal fawned over her when she

wept, and licked her hands, 'Ah, poor Manchon!' said she, 'I have nobody

now to love me--but you!' and she wept theto her father's injunctions, she re useless sorro often he had pointed

out to her the necessity of fortitude and patience, assuring her, that

the faculties of the then by exertion, till they finally

unnerve affliction, and triuradually soothed her spirits, and inspired her with the sweet

e precepts, which her father had so frequently

inculcated