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CHAP. IV.

"Ah! happy grove, dark and secure retreat
"Of sacred silence, rest's eternal seat;
"How well your cool and unfrequented shade
"Suits with the chaste retirement of a maid:
"Oh if kind heaven had been so much my friend,
"To make my fate upon my choice depend;
"All my ambition I would here confine,
"And only this elysium should be mine."

Clermont went out to see that Lubin was taken care of, thank him for the attention he had paid to Madeline, and inquire whether he would not stop a day or two at the cottage to rest himself; but Lubin said there was a necessity for his immediate re-