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Chapter sixth
At breakfast the next morning, Julia was pale & languid; her
eyes dark & heavy; instead of joining as normal in the lively prattle of her children
she was so sad & thoughtful, that she scarcely listened to what they said,
and D'aubigni lost all courage to execute the plan he had designed
of conversing seriously with her concerning her next situation.

She begged D'aubigni to amuse himself in the library, until dinner,
as she should be enjoyed.

"Pray Uncle, take me with you," said Rosa, "or I shall be
all alone." D'aubigni heard her not; on Julia's leaving the
room he had strolled to the window & was now leaning against
it, lost in thought. Sometime afterwards he perceived her
light figure gliding down the avenue. He took of his hat, & pursu-
ing a path which led in a contrary direction, & was soon lost in
the wild & unfrequented paths that led among the hills.

Mrs Clifton, meanwhile pursued her way to her firned
Madam Luneville's. This lady had gone to France while young, with
her father, & while he was engaged by mercantile pursuits in [?? various]
parts of the kingdom, she had been placed in a convent, where she was
educated; had afterwards lived some years at Marseilles, & married
a young French gentleman, the son of her father's partner who resided in
that place. She was left a widow at an early age, & after the
death of her father-in-law returned to the U. Sates, bringing with
her the manners & ideas of the country in which she had passed
the greatest part of her life. She was a woman of sprightly parts,
& good natural understanding which were improved more by obser
-vation than reading. She had travelled through most parts of
Europe, had passed her summers at fashionable watering-places
& several winters at Paris, & was completely a woman of the world.

Accident had made Mrs Clifton acquainted with her, & ena-
-bled Madam Luneville to bestow on her some kind of attentions, which
Julia was of too grateful a disposition ever to forget. Thus commenced
an intimacy between too persons, of totaly different character. Mrs
Clifton was the creation of impulse & in all her actions was
governed