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80 various were the scenes of beauty it presented to strike and fascinate her attention.

Suddenly, however, the mirror of her fancy became obscured, the view darkened, and she descended by degrees to the recollection of the coldness, restraints, animosities, and family differences she had heard from her infant years; all of which seemed to her to be wrapped in an impenetrable veil of mystery. Yet it was in vain she sought to dispel it from her thoughts, or to discover any efficient cause in which it originated. This appeared a hopeless case.

Submitting herself, therefore, to the kind protection and unerring guidance of Him who is perfectly acquainted with all our ways, and who foresees all that finite beings call contingencies, she passed the nocturnal hours in sweet repose, cheerfully and calmly meeting her father the next morning at the breakfast-table.