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could justify it, she ascended to the terrace, where thebroad walk, with the pavilion at its extreh trees and shrubs, that

bordered it on the right, and the tufted summits of those, that rose

to a level with the balustrade on the left, froain alarht was so calm, that no sound could have escaped her, but she heard

only the plaintive sweetness of the nightingale, with the light shiver

of the leaves, and she pursued her way towards the pavilion, having

reached which, its obscurity did not prevent the emotion, that a fuller

view of its well-known scene would have excited The lattices were

thrown back, and shewed beyond their eht

landscape, shadowy and soft; its groves, and plains extending gradually

and indistinctly to the eye, its distant lea to her

rays Emily, as she approached the lattice, was sensible of the features of

this scene only as they served to bring Valancourt more immediately to

her fancy