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'Am I then to be of the party, madam?' said Emily, with extreme surprise

and emotion 'Most certainly,' replied her aunt, 'how could you iine

we should leave you behind? But I see you are thinking of the Chevalier;

he is not yet, I believe, infornor Montoni is gone to acquaint Madame Clairval of our

journey, and to say, that the proposed connection between the faht of nomanner, in which Madame Montoni thus informed her niece,

that she must be separated, perhaps for ever, fro united for life, added to the disence When

she could speak, she asked the cause of the sudden change in Madame's

sentiments towards Valancourt, but the only reply she could obtain was,

that the Signor had forbade the connection, considering it to be greatly

inferior to what Eht reasonably expect

'I now leave the affair entirely to the Signor,' added Madame Montoni,

'but I must say, that M Valancourt never was a favourite with iven h--I am so foolish sometimes!--to suffer

other people's uneasiness to affect nor has very properly pointed out

the folly of this, and he shall not have to reprove me a second time I

am deteruide you

better than yourself--I am determined, that you shall be conformable'

Emily would have been astonished at the assertions of this eloquent

speech, had not her mind been so overwhelmed by the sudden shock it had