ect. The scene
appeared in solemn grandeur; the dusky forest reflected a yellow
radiance; and the rolling wonders of the heavens glittered over the
head, while awful stillness reigned, interrupted only by the strains of
the night-bird, whose melodious notes served to soothe the heart to
harmony.

[_NY Weekly_: Extract from a Letter to Miss ****:

The day ended, and still evening drew on. Then did nature appear in
silent magnificence; while the silver rays of the full orbed moon
shed a majesty on each surrounding object. The lofty summit of the
cloud-topt mountain appeared in solemn grandeur; the dusky forest
reflected a yellow radiance; and the rolling wonders of the skies
glittered over our heads: while the awful stillness that reigned,
interrupted only by the lonely strains of the whip-poor-will, served
to exalt the soul, and distend the heart.]

Albert returned home with a leisurely step, his feelings were raised in
devotional gratitude to that beneficent Being, on whom we depend for
every present and future felicity, and who had surrounded us with so
many blessings, that conspire to compose the mind to calmness and
serenity.

[_NY Weekly_: Chearfulness:

Indeed, true piety is an invaluable treasure; and happy are they who
esteem its salutary tendency. It meliorates the morals and
disposition, and promotes present and future felicity.]

CHAPTER XXX.

Ceux qui ne sont gens de bien qu'en apparence--sont obliges de
se contraindre, beaucoup, et de garder de grandes mesures, afin
de passer pour se qu'ils ne sont pas.

[Abbe Claude Le Ragois: _Instruction sur l'histoire de France et
romaine_ (1737): Proverbes ou Sentences:

Ceux qui ne sont gens de bien qu'en aparence, sont obligez de
se contraindre beaucoup, & de garder de grandes mesures, afin de
passer pour ce qu'ils ne sont pas....]

Alida ruminated on her lonely situation. She reflected on former days,
and the many happy hours that had gone by for ever, when the roses of
health had arrayed her cheeks, and gay thought had filled her fancy, and
every object was decked with the charms of fascination, when her heart
was unacquainted with sorrow, and experienced serenity and happiness
without alloy. She deplored the loss of a kind father; in him she was
deprived of a friend, who could never be again supplied to her, and in
whose society her mind was in a constant progressive state of
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