It was now late; and the party hastened to leave this romantic spot, which had been marked by so singular a meeting. On their arrival at Toulon, they equipped, and sent away before them to St. Alpin, Le Limosin and Madelon, the latter of whom Lady Westhaven took entirely to wait on Emmeline.
The soft heart and tender spirits of Emmeline had not yet recovered the detail she had heard of her father's death. A pensive melancholy hung over her; which the Chevalier, nothing doubting his own perfections, hoped was owing to a growing affection for himself. But it had several sources of which he had no suspicion; and it made the remaining three weeks of their tour appear tedious to Emmeline; who languished to be at St. Alpin, where she hoped to find letters from Mrs. Stafford and from Lady Adelina. She thought it an age since she had heard from the latter; and secretly but anxiously indulged an hope of meeting a large pacquet, which might contain some intelligence of Godolphin.
END OF THE THIRD VOLUME
FOOTNOTES:
[3] If the young lady would please to sit down.
[4] That she might sit down without inconvenience.
[5] I perceive I have the honour to speak to an English nobleman.
[6] How? are you then well acquainted with the English?
[7] I passed part of my youth in their service.—— They are the best masters in the world.
[8] Do you speak English, my friend?