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Refreshed by the cool and fragrant air, and her spirits soothed to a

state of gentle melancholy by the stilly ered at her case into obscurity, till only the

grand outline of the surrounding mountains, shadowed upon the horizon,

reave to the

landscape, what tiives to the scenes of past life, when it softens

all their harsher features, and throws over the whole the

shade of distant contemplation The scenes of La Vallee, in the early

morn of her life, when she was protected and beloved by parents equally

loved, appeared in Emily's memory tenderly beautiful, like the prospect

before her, and awakenedto encounter

the coarse behaviour of the peasant's wife, she reain over her forlorn and perilous situation,

a reviehich entirely overca her to temporary despondence, she wished to be released

fro oppressed her, and prayed

to Heaven to take her, in its th, lay down on her mattress, and sunk