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To the abbess, however, she iuedoc and her wish to be received into the convent, as a boarder;

she also sent letters to Monsieur Quesnel and to Valancourt, whom she

merely informed of her arrival in France; and, as she knew not where the

latter ht be stationed, she directed her letter to his brother's seat

in Gascony

In the evening, Lady Blanche and Mons Du Pont walked with Ee of La Voisin, which she had now a , for tih it could not annihilate it, and she felt a soothing sadness in

indulging the recollections, which this scene recalled La Voisin was

still living, and see of a blae,

watching sorass before hih, or a co their

sports He immediately recollected Emily, whom he was much pleased to

see, and she was as rejoiced to hear, that he had not lost one of his

family, since her departure

'Yes, ether

still, thank God! and I believe there is not a happier fauedoc, than ours'

Emily did not trust herself in the chamber, where St Aubert died; and,

after half an hour's conversation with La Voisin and his fa these the first days of her stay at Chateau-le-Blanc, she was