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departure from Tholouse, had so unexpectedly taken place The door was

now shut, and she trembled, while she hesitated whether to open it; but

her wish to see again a place, which had been the chief scene of her

for her reluctance to encounter the

painful regret it would renew, she entered The rooh the open lattices, darkened by the

hanging foliage of the vines, appeared the dusky landscape, the Garonne

reflecting the evening light, and the west still glowing A chair was

placed near one of the balconies, as if so

there, but the other furniture of the pavilion reht it looked as if it had not once been moved

since she set out for Italy

The silent and deserted air of the place

added solemnity to her emotions, for she heard only the lohisper

of the breeze, as it shook the leaves of the vines, and the very faint

murmur of the Garonne She seated herself in a chair, near the lattice, and yielded to the

sadness of her heart, while she recollected the circu intervieith Valancourt, on this spot It was here too, that

she had passed some of the happiest hours of her life with him, when

her aunt favoured the connection, for here she had often sat and worked,

while he conversed, or read; and she noell rey, he used to repeat

soes of their favourite authors; how often he

would pause to adht he would listen to her remarks, and correct her taste