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Ah why did Fate his steps decoy

In storenial joy!

BEATTIE

E anxiety as to the fate of

Valancourt; but Theresa, having, at length, found a person, whom she

could entrust on her errand to the steward, infor day; and E too la, therefore, Ee, with a

Valancourt, while, perhaps, the glooht contribute to depress her spirits It was a grey

autu towards the close of the season; heavybreeze, that sighed a the

beech woods, strewed her path with so in the blast and foretelling the death of the year,

gave an ie of desolation to her mind, and, in her fancy, seemed to

announce the death of Valancourt Of this she had, indeed,a presenti herself unequal to an encounter with the certainty she

anticipated, but, contending with her emotions, she so far commanded

them, as to be able to proceed

While she walkedvolu the ss, tossed along the

wind, now disappearing a,

for a moment, in circles upon the calmer air, the afflictions and