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Oh! the joy

Of young ideas, painted on thecolours fancy spreads

On objects not yet knohen all is new,

And all is lovely!

SACRED DRAMAS

We now return to Languedoc and to the mention of Count De Villefort, the

nobleman, who succeeded to an estate of the Marquis De Villeroi situated

near the monastery of St Claire It may be recollected, that this

chateau was uninhabited, when St Aubert and his daughter were in the

neighbourhood, and that the for

hi which the

good old La Voisin afterwards dropped some hints, that had alarinning of that, in which St Aubert

died, that Francis Beauveau, Count De Villefort, came into possession

of the mansion and extensive domain called Chateau-le-Blanc, situated

in the province of Languedoc, on the shore of the Mediterranean This

estate, which, during soed to his family,

now descended to him, on the decease of his relative, the Marquis De

Villeroi, who had been latterly a man of reserved ether with the duties of his

profession, that often called hiree of intimacy with his cousin, the Count De Villefort