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CHAP. V.
—in those woods I deem some spirits dwell,
Who, from the chiding stream and groaning oak,
Still hear and answer to my moan. Douglas
The soothing attentions of the Countess de Merville at length abated the grief of Madeline; she gradually revived and began to converse and admire the new and beautiful scenes, through which she passed. In the course of conversation she learned that her amiable friend was a widow, and had one only child, a daughter, married about three years to a Monsieur D'Alembert, who generally resided in Paris; in which place the Countess had also lived for that period,
