The physician, when asked by St.Aubert for his opinion of the disorder, replied, that the event of it depended upon circumstances which he could not ascertain.

Madame St.Aubert seemed to have formed a more decided one; but her eyes only gave hints of this.

She frequently fixed them upon her anxious friends with an expression of pity, and of tenderness, as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them, and that seemed to say, it was for their sakes only, for their sufferings, that she regretted life.

On the seventh day, the disorder was at its crisis.

The physician assumed a graver manner, which she observed, and took occasion, when her family had once quitted the chamber, to tell him, that she perceived her death was approaching.