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The Count iing theers as could not be accommodated in the adjacent ha the latter, were Emily St Aubert,

Monsieur Du Pont, Ludovico and Annette, who, having ehorn

and reached Marseilles, were fro the Gulf of Lyons,

when this storm overtook thenity, who, though Emily wished to have proceeded immediately

to the monastery of St Claire, would not allow her to leave the

chateau, that night; and, indeed, the terror and fatigue she had

suffered would scarcely have pero farther

In Monsieur Du Pont the Count discovered an old acquaintance, and

ratulation passed between them, after which Emily was

introduced by name to the Count's family, whose hospitable benevolence

dissipated the little embarrassment, which her situation had occasioned

her, and the party were soon seated at the supper-table The unaffected

kindness of Blanche and the lively joy she expressed on the escape of

the strangers, for whoradually

revived Euid spirits; and Du Pont, relieved from his terrors

for her and for himself, felt the full contrast, between his late

situation on a dark and tremendous ocean, and his present one, in a

cheerful ance and