A variety of circumstances have concurred to ruin him, and--I am ruined with him.' St.Aubert paused to conceal his emotion.
'The letters I have just received from M.Quesnel,' resumed he, struggling to speak with firmness, 'enclosed others from Motteville, which confirmed all I dreaded.' 'Must we then quit La Vallee ?' said Emily, after a long pause of silence.

'That is yet uncertain,' replied St.Aubert, 'it will depend upon the compromise Motteville is able to make with his creditors.

My income, you know, was never large, and now it will be reduced to little indeed! It is for you, Emily, for you, my child, that I am most afflicted.' His last words faltered; Emily smiled tenderly upon him through her tears, and then, endeavouring to overcome her emotion, 'My dear father,' said she, 'do not grieve for me, or for yourself; we may yet be happy;--if La Vallee remains for us, we must be happy.

We will retain only one servant, and you shall scarcely perceive the change in your income.

Be comforted, my dear sir; we shall not feel the want of those luxuries, which others value so highly, since we never had a taste for them; and poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations.