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After conversing for a few o This was the er

expectation, the summit from which she looked down upon the fairy-land

of happiness, and surveyed all its enchantret? Yet it was so She turned, with an altered and

dejected countenance, to her young companions, ere come to bid her

farewell, and wept! Even my lady abbess, so stately and so soleree of sorrohich, an hour before, she would

have believed it impossible to feel, and whichhow reluctantly we all part, even with unpleasing objects,

when the separation is consciously for ever Again, she kissed the poor

nuns and then followed the Countess from that spot with tears, which she

expected to leave only with smiles

But the presence of her father and the variety of objects, on the road,

soon engaged her attention, and dissipated the shade, which tender

regret had thrown upon her spirits Inattentive to a conversation, which

was passing between the Countess and a Made reverie, as she watched the clouds

floating silently along the blue expanse, now veiling the sun and

stretching their shadows along the distant scene, and then disclosing

all his brightness The journey continued to give Blanche inexpressible

delight, for new scenes of nature were every instant opening to her