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The intense heat, for it was now noon, obliged the travellers to look

out for a shady recess, where theythickets, abounding ild grapes, raspberries, and

figs, prorateful refreshrove, whose thick foliage entirely excluded the

sun-beaave coolness to

the air; and, having alighted and turned the horses to graze, Annette

and Ludovico ran to gather fruit fro thickets, of which

they soon returned with an abundance The travellers, seated under the

shade of a pine and cypress grove and on turf, enriched with such a

profusion of fragrant flowers, as E the Pyrenees, took their siht, beneath the dark u to the sea

Ehtful and silent; but Annette

was all joy and loquacity, and Ludovico was gay, without forgetting the

respectful distance, which was due to his co

over, Du Pont reco these

sultry hours, and, desiring the servants would do the same, said he

would watch the while; but Ludovico wished to spare him this trouble;

and E, tried to repose, while

he stood guard with his trombone

When Emily, refreshed by slumber, awoke, she found the sentinel asleep

on his post and Du Pont awake, but lost in h to allow them to continue their journey, and as