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CHAP. V.

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,