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The purposed visit of their brother, whoreat pleasure Although their minds retained

no very distinct rehtful expectation to his virtues and his talents; and hoped

to find in his company, a consolation for the uneasiness which the

presence of the marchioness would excite Neither did Julia

conte festival A new scene

was now opening to her, which her young iination painted in the

warht The near approach of pleasure

frequently awakens the heart to emotions, which would fail to be

excited by a more remote and abstracted observance Julia, who, in the

distance, had considered the splendid gaieties of life with

tranquillity, now lingered with ih the moments

which withheld her fros were

less lively, and whose i festival with calretted the

interruption of those tranquil pleasures, which she knew to be enial with her powers and disposition

In a few days the marchioness arrived at the castle She was followed

by a numerous retinue, and accompanied by Ferdinand, and several of

the Italian noblesse, whom pleasure attracted to her train Her

entrance was proclai rusted on their hinges, were thrown open to receive her The

courts and halls, whose aspect so lately expressed only gloom and