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When Du Pont joined the ladies, the stranger took leave, and they proceeded to the

chateau, where the Count, when he heard of Mons Bonnac, clai the uedoc, and that he was lodged at a sed the favour of Mons Du Pont to invite him to the chateau

The latter was happy to do so, and the scruples of reserve, whichat length overcome,

they went to the chateau, where the kindness of the Count and the

sprightliness of his son were exerted to dissipate the glooer M Bonnac was an officer in the

French service, and appeared to be about fifty; his figure was tall

and co, his manners had received the last polish, and there was

so; for over features,

which, in youth, must have been remarkably handso misfortune, rather than of

constitution, or te supper, was evidently an effort of

politeness, and there were intervals in which, unable to struggle

against the feelings, that depressed him, he relapsed into silence and

abstraction, from which, however, the Count, sometimes, withdrew him in

a manner so delicate and benevolent, that Emily, while she observed him,

almost fancied she beheld her late father

The party separated, at an early hour, and then, in the solitude of her