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Now, that futurity, so anxiously anticipated, was arrived, she was

returned--but what a dreary blank appeared!--Valancourt no longer

lived for her! She had no longer even the e in her heart, for he was no longer the same

Valancourt she had cherished there--the solace offriend, that had enabled her to bear up against the

oppression of Montoni--the distant hope, that had bea this beloved idea to be an illusion of her own

creation, Valancourt seemed to be annihilated, and her soul sickened at

the blank, that reht she could have endured with more fortitude, than this discovery;

for then, arief, she could have looked in secret upon the

ioodness, which her fancy had drawn of hi!

Drying her tears, she looked, once more, upon the landscape, which had

excited the the very bank, where

she had taken leave of Valancourt, on theof her departure fro tears, such as

he had appeared, when she looked fro h trees, and reuish, hich he had then

regarded her This recollection was too e, nor once looked up, till it stopped at the gates

of as now her ownopened, and by the servant, to whose care the chateau had

been entrusted, the carriage drove into the court, where, alighting,