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'During her illness, she has sometimes named you,' resumed the abbess;

'perhaps, it would comfort her to see you; when her present visitors

have left her, ill go to her chamber, if the scene will not be

too melancholy for your spirits But, indeed, to such scenes, however

painful, we ought to accustom ourselves, for they are salutary to the

soul, and prepare us for e are ourselves to suffer'

Eht to her

recollection the dying moments of her beloved father, and she wished

once more to weep over the spot, where his re the silence, which followed the abbess' speech,his last hours occurred to her--his ehbourhood of Chateau-le-Blanc--his

request to be interred in a particular spot in the church of this

e he had delivered to her to destroy

certain papers, without exa them--She recollected also the

mysterious and horrible words in those lanced; and, though they now, and, indeed, whenever

she remembered the

their full import, and the motives for her father's command, it was

ever her chief consolation, that she had strictly obeyed him in this

particular

Little more was said by the abbess, who appeared too much affected by

the subject she had lately left, to be willing to converse, and her