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'If they will not accommodate us with a night's lodging, said he, 'they may certainly inform us how far we are from Montigny, and direct us towards it. He was bounding forward, without waiting St. Aubert's reply, when the latter stopped him. 'I am very weary, said St. Aubert, 'and wish for nothing so much as for immediate rest.
Aubert's cries brought La Voisin and his daughter to the room, and they administered every means in their power to restore her, but, for a considerable time, without effect. When she recovered, St.
Aubert's apprehensions now subsided; he had no doubt that the train before him consisted of smugglers, who, in conveying prohibited goods over the Pyrenees, had been encountered, and conquered by a party of troops.
After this hour of melancholy indulgence, she was refreshed by a deeper sleep, than she had experienced for a long time, and, on awakening, her mind was more tranquil and resigned, than it had been since St. Aubert's death.
Hamon's "My Sister is not at home," and Aubert's various pretty fancies of nymphs and cupids, while they are not great works of art, are reasonably sure of a long life, due to their innocent freshness and simplicity.
Aubert's spirits were so far restored by the courtesy of his host, and the near prospect of repose, that he looked with a sweet complacency upon the moon-light scene, surrounded by the shadowy woods, through which, here and there, an opening admitted the streaming splendour, discovering a cottage, or a sparkling rivulet.
It is clear that the Fenayrous attached the utmost importance to the recovery of this correspondence, which disappeared with Aubert's death. Was the prime motive of the murder the recovery and destruction of these letters? Was Aubert possessed of some knowledge concerning the Fenayrous that placed them at his mercy? It would seem so.
'Ah, monsieur! that I do well. There are many besides me who remember her. 'Yes said St. Aubert, 'and I am one of those. 'Alas, sir! you remember, then, a most beautiful and excellent lady. She deserved a better fate. Tears stood in St. Aubert's eyes; 'Enough, said he, in a voice almost stifled by the violence of his emotions, 'it is enough, my friend.
Aubert's last request, and of endeavouring to pursue the conduct which he would have approved, she overcame her tears, and, when the company met at dinner, had recovered her usual serenity of countenance. In the cool of the evening, the ladies took the FRESCO along the bank of the Brenta in Madame Quesnel's carriage.
Having paused, however, to let the persons in the gallery pass before she opened her door, her thoughts, in the mean time, recovered from the confusion of sleep, and she understood that the bell was the call of the monks to prayers. It had now ceased, and, all being again still, she forbore to go to St. Aubert's room.
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