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wide to receive them. And as they ascended they cried out, "Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" And again they said, "Hallelujah to God and the Lamb!" Thus the glorious company of these blessed ones reached the regions of ethereal light, whither my eyes could follow them no more.

Upon which I awoke from my dream, and hastened to write it in a book.

"Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his !" Numbers xxiii. 10.

END OF THE INFANT'S PROGRESS.

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FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.

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CHAPTER I.

I SHALL Commence my narrative by stating that I am a native of France, and a very old man. More than forty years since I was a minister of a small parish situated in the beautiful province of Normandy, in France; that province which gave her conquerors and her princes for many generations to the country in which I have now taken up my abode.

I was educated for the pastoral office; the parish which was appointed me lies upon the Seine; it extends along the left bank of that beautiful river, which, as is well known, rises near Saint Seine, in Burgundy, and mingles itself with the sea below the city of Rouen.

It is a region rich in orchards and vineyards, in fragrant meadow-lands and thymy downs.-To the north thereof lies a forest, extending itself for several leagues over a space most beautifully diversified with hill and dale, and affording within its deep recesses such a great variety of cool grottoes, waterfalls, and natural bowers as I have seldom seen in any other part of the world. There is the sweet village, each little dwelling of which has its thatched roof, its rural porch, and its gay flowergarden. We had our chateau also, which being built of gray stone, and having a commanding site, afforded a pleasing object to the road which runs from Paris to Rouen on the other side of the Seine; its fanes and turrets at that time being exalted above the neighbouring woods, though, as I now understand, they are levelled to the dust; and near the chateau was the Tour de Tourterelle, which gave the title to the family,—a VOL. V.-I

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