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Passing hastily the gate leading froreat avenue, scarcely per her me here parted with Valancourt,

and soon quitted this for other walks less interesting to her heart

These brought her, at length, to the flight of steps, that led fro which, she becaitated,

and hesitated whether to ascend, but, her resolution returning, she

proceeded 'Ah!' said Eh trees, that

used to wave over the terrace, and these the same flowery thickets--the

liburnurow

beneath them!

Ah! and there, too, on that bank, are the very plants,

which Valancourt so carefully reared!--O, when last I saw theht, but could not restrain her tears, and, after

walking slowly on for a few itation, upon the view of

this well-known scene, increased so ed to stop,

and lean upon the wall of the terrace It was aover the extensive landscape, to which his

bea the west,

gave rich and partial colouring, and touched the tufted suarden beloith a yellow gleaether this scene, at the saht preceding her departure