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What transport to retrace our early plays,

Our easy bliss, when each thing joy supplied

The woods, themaze

Of the wild brooks!

THOMSON

Blanche's slu after the hour, which she had

so iued with travelling,

did not call her, till breakfast was nearly ready Her disappoint the case in theoars; and, on the other, the fresh woods,

the plains far-stretching and the bluewith the

splendour of day

As she inspired the pure breeze, health spread a deeper blush upon her

countenance, and pleasure danced in her eyes

'Who could first invent convents!' said she, 'and who could first

persuade people to go into theion a pretence, too,

where all that should inspire it, is so carefully shut out! God is

best pleased with the holories, we feel

the many dull years I was in the convent, as I have done in the few

hours, that I have been here, where I need only look on all around

this, she left the , bounded along the gallery, and, in

the next moment, was in the breakfast room, where the Count was

already seated The cheerfulness of a bright sunshine had dispersed