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Count surveyed with the pride of conscious property, as well as with the

eye of taste At so these woods, stood a pavilion, which had once

been the scene of social gaiety, and which its situation still made

one of romantic beauty Thither, the Count had ordered coffee and other

refreshment to be carried, and thither the sailors now steered

their course, following the windings of the shore roundbay; while the pensive tones of horns and other

wind instruments, played by the attendants in a distant boat, echoed

a the waves Blanche had now subdued her

fears; a delightful tranquillity stole over her mind, and held her in

silence; and she was too happy even to remember the convent, or her

former sorrows, as subjects of comparison with her present felicity

The Countess felt less unhappy than she had done, since theParis; for her ree of restraint;

she feared to indulge its ard huood opinion On his fa scene,

he looked with tempered pleasure and benevolent satisfaction, while his

son exhibited the gay spirits of youth, anticipating new delights, and

regretless of those, that were passed