At the distance of about a yard
from that end, nearer the window, you will perceive a line across it,
as if the plank had been joined;--the way to open it is this:--Press
your foot upon the line; the end of the board will then sink, and you
may slide it with ease beneath the other. Below, you will see a
hollow place.' St. Aubert paused for breath, and Emily sat fixed in
deep attention. 'Do you understand these directions, my dear?' said
he. Emily, though scarcely able to speak, assured him that she did.
'When you return home, then,' he added with a deep sigh--
At the mention of her return home, all the melancholy circumstances,
that must attend this return, rushed upon her fancy; she burst into
convulsive grief, and St. Aubert himself, affected beyond the
resistance of the fortitude which he had, at first, summoned, wept
with her. After some moments, he composed himself. 'My dear child,'
said he, 'be comforted. When I am gone, you will not be forsaken--I
leave you only in the more immediate care of that Providence, which
has never yet forsaken me.
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