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Her reflections increased her anguish, while she was coe, that the fortitude she had formerly exerted, if it had

not conducted her to happiness, had saved her from irretrievable

misfortune--from Valancourt hiratulate herself on the prudence, that had saved her; she could only

lauish, the circumstances, which had conspired

to betray Valancourt into a course of life so different from that,

which the virtues, the tastes, and the pursuits of his early years had

promised; but she still loved him too well to believe, that his

heart was even now depraved, though his conduct had been criminal An

observation, which had fallen from M St Aubertof Valancourt, 'has

never been at Paris;' a remark, that had surprised her at the time

it was uttered, but which she now understood, and she exclaimed

sorrowfully, 'O Valancourt! if such a friend as enuous nature would not have fallen!'

The sun was now set, and, recalling her thoughts from their melancholy

subject, she continued her walk; for the pensive shade of twilight was

pleasing to her, and the nightingales froan

to answer each other in the long-drawn, plaintive note, which always

touched her heart; while all the fragrance of the flowery thickets, that

bounded the terrace, akened by the cool evening air, which floated

so lightly a their leaves, that they scarcely treth, to the steps of the pavilion, that terminated

the terrace, and where her last intervieith Valancourt, before her