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Blanche, though she wished to see these cha

that Dorothee's eyes were filled with tears, to ask her to unlock them,

and, soon after, went to dress for dinner, at which the whole party ood humour, except the Countess, whose vacant uor of idleness, would neither suffer her to be

happy herself, or to contribute to the happiness of others Madee against Henri,

who answered, because he could not well avoid it, rather than from any

inclination to notice her, whose liveliness sometiusted him

The cheerfulness, hich Blanche rejoined the party, vanished, on

her reaching the azed with apprehension upon

the immense expanse of waters, which, at a distance, she had beheld only

with delight and astonish effort, that she

so far overcame her fears as to follow her father into the boat

As she silently surveyed the vast horizon, bending round the distant

verge of the ocean, an eled to

overcoht breeze played on the

water, and on the silk awning of the boat, and waved the foliage of the

receding woods, that crowned the cliffs, for many miles, and which the