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While Eed, her eyes

wandered unconsciously to a large , that looked upon the garden,

and here new memorials of the past spoke to her heart, for she saw

extended before her the very avenue, in which she had parted with

Valancourt, on the eve of her journey; and all the anxiety, the tender

interest he had shewn, concerning her future happiness, his earnest

re herself to the power of Montoni,

and the truth of his affection, came afresh to her memory At this

moment, it appeared almost impossible, that Valancourt could have becoard, and she doubted all that she had lately heard to

his disadvantage, and even his oords, which had confirmed Count De

Villefort's report of him Overcome by the recollections, which the view

of this avenue occasioned, she turned abruptly from the , and

sunk into a chair beside it, where she sat, given up to grief, till the

entrance of Annette, with coffee, aroused her

'Dear madam, how melancholy this place looks now,' said Annette, 'to

what it used to do! It is dis home, when there is nobody to

welcome one!'