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She wept to the memory of tis, luxurious and indefinable Madame behaved to Julia

with the tenderest attention, and endeavoured to withdraw her thoughts

fro that taste for literature and

music, which was so suitable to the powers of hernow obtained that regard, which

those of mere amusement failed to attract Her favorite nun, for who under the

pressure of a secret grief Julia was deeply affected with her

situation, and though she was not empowered to administer consolation

to her sorrows, she endeavoured to s of illness

She nursed her with unre care, and seemed to seize with avidity

the te from herself The nun appeared

perfectly reconciled to her fate, and exhibited during her illness so

nation as affected all around her

with pity and love

Her angelic mildness, and steady fortitude

characterized the beatification of a saint, rather than the death of a

mortal Julia watched every turn of her disorder with the utth rewarded by the aradually improved, and she attributed this

circu friend, to

whom her heart now expanded in warth Julia ventured to solicit what she had so long and so earnestly