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 for it, she would be laid within the narrow house of clay.

"To quit this place directly, to return to you, my dear father, and mingle those tears with your's, which should embalm her memory, would be my wish, had she not requested, almost in her last moments, that I might continue here to receive Madame D'Alembert, who is shortly expected, and also to give her my company while she staid, or whenever she came to the chateau alone—a request which the gratitude of your heart will not, I am convinced, permit me to disobey;—yet, alas! little benefit can she derive from my society. How can I comfort—how try to reconcile her to a loss which I feel myself nothing earthly can supply to me? But, perhaps, she may derive a melancholy pleasure from the company of a person who is a real mourner; I feel myself, that those of the Countess's family who are the most afflicted, are those to whom I am the most attached.