It was delightful to know I was so near you, and there was something particularly soothing in the thought, that I watched round your habitation, while you slept.

These grounds are not entirely new to me.

Once I ventured within the fence, and spent one of the happiest, and yet most melancholy hours of my life in walking under what I believed to be your window.' Emily enquired how long Valancourt had been in the neighbourhood.
'Several days,' he replied.

'It was my design to avail myself of the permission M.St.Aubert had given me.

I scarcely know how to account for it; but, though I anxiously wished to do this, my resolution always failed, when the moment approached, and I constantly deferred my visit.
I lodged in a village at some distance, and wandered with my dogs, among the scenes of this charming country, wishing continually to meet you, yet not daring to visit you.' Having thus continued to converse, without perceiving the flight of time, Valancourt, at length, seemed to recollect himself.