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In a few days, Emily also left the chateau, but not before the Count and

Countess had received her promise to repeat her visit very soon; and

she elcomed by the abbess, with the same maternal kindness she had

formerly experienced, and by the nuns, with ard

The well-known scenes of the convent occasioned her led others, that inspired

gratitude for having escaped the various dangers, that had pursued her,

since she quitted it, and for the good, which she yet possessed; and,

though she once rave, with tears of tender

affection, her grief was softened from its former acuteness

Some time after her return to the monastery, she received a letter from

her uncle, Mons Quesnel, in answer to information that she had arrived

in France, and to her enquiries, concerning such of her affairs as

he had undertaken to conduct during her absence, especially as to the

period for which La Vallee had been let, whither it was her wish to

return, if it should appear, that her income would permit her to do

so

The reply of Mons Quesnel was cold and for neither concern for the evils she suffered, nor pleasure,

that she was now removed from the her for her rejection of Count Morano, whom he