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The Count, coaiety as he had

witnessed at Paris, where false taste painted the features, and, while

it vainly tried to supply the glow of nature, concealed the charms

of animation--where affectation so often distorted the air, and vice

perverted the races and innocent

pleasures flourished in the wilds of solitude, while they drooped a shadows reminded

the travellers, that they had no ti this joyous

group, they pursued their way towards the little inn, which was to

shelter the sun now threw a yellow gleam upon the forests of

pine and chesnut, that swept down the lower region of the ave resplendent tints to the snowy points above But soon, even this

light faded fast, and the scenery assumed a more treht Where the torrent had been

seen, it was now only heard; where the wild cliffs had displayed

every variety of form and attitude, a dark mass of mountains now alone

appeared; and the vale, which far, far below had opened its dreadful

chasleahest Alps, overlooking the deep repose of

evening, and see to make the stillness of the hour more awful

Blanche viewed the scene in silence, and listened with enthusiasm to the

thethe rocks, that came at

intervals on the air But her enthusiasm sunk into apprehension, when,