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She was a woman Of virtue most austere; noble in birth, And of most royal presence but sad thoughts Seemed to possess her wholly her children, even, Seldom approached her, and when they did, No soft affection, motherly caress, Was e'er accorded to them stern and cold, She looked a moving statue. Old Play.
About six months after the occurrence of the events we have just related, and in the early part of the spring of 1780, a post chaise, whose wheels and panels covered with mud and dust, clearly certified that it had performed a long journey, was dragging slowly along, although two powerful horses were harnessed to it, upon the road between Vanness and Auray. The traveller it contained, and who was roughly jolted in traversing the cross-roads, was our former aquaintance, Count Emanuel, whom we saw open the scene upon the jetty of Fort Louis. He was coming from Paris with all haste, and proceeding to his ancient family mansion, with regard to which it is now necessary to give some more precise and circumstantial details.