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Motionless, with deep attention she cast her eyes around, to find out from whence proceeded such divine music. She perceived at some distance, a young shepherd sitting in the cavity of a rock, at the foot of which his sheep was feeding. She drew somewhat nearer, that she might hear him play more distinctly. Behold, said she, the effects of instinct! the car alone has given this shepherd all the fineness of this charming art! what purity of the notes! variety of the modulations! what fine and neatness in the exccution! who then shall say that tastc is not the gift of naturc.
Adelaide, for the first time since her retirement, felt her grief in some measure suspended. Fonrose, who saw her approach nearer, and sit down under a willow, to listen more conveniently, had given her no room to think he had perceived her; he took the opportunity as soon as she retired, to calculate the pace of her flock, so as to meet her without affection at thc bottom of thc hill, whcre the road that lcads to the different huts crossed each other. He gave her a look in a seemingly careless manner, as if he was wholly taken up with the guidanee of the sheep; but, ah! what beautics where gazed on in that look! what cyes! what a mouth! what divine features! so moving in their languor! how ravishing would they appear if animated with love! affliction had added paleness, and faded in some degree, the blooming carnation of her cheeks. But all of her charms, none struck him with so much admiration as her elegant shape and air. The charming image which love engraves in his heart, takes up his thoughts, & fills his soul with irrcsistable passions.
