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an estate, whose
beautiful situation on the summit of a mountain, immediately on the
banks of the lake, with its magnificent view of the surrounding country,
and its glittering glaciers on the distant horizon, made it a most
delightful place of sojourn. Hortense now caused the furniture of her
dwelling in Paris, that had been sold, to be sent to her. The sight of
these evidences of her former grandeur awakened sweet and bitter
emotions in her heart, as they were one after another taken out of the
cases in which they had been packed--these sofas, chairs, divans,
carpets, chandeliers, mirrors, and all the other ornaments of the
parlors in which Hortense had been accustomed to receive kings and
emperors, and which were now to adorn the Swiss villa that was outwardly
so beautiful because of the vicinity, and inwardly so plain and simple.
But Hortense knew how to make an elegant and tasteful disposition of all
these articles; she herself arranged every thing in her house, and took
true feminine delight in her task. And when all was at last
arranged--when she walked, with her son at her side, through the suite
of rooms, in which every ornament and piece of furniture reminded her
of the past--when these things recalled the proud days of state when so
many friends, relatives, and servants, had surrounded her--a feeling of
unutterable loneliness, of painful desolation, came over her, and she
sank down on a sofa and wept bitterly. But there was nevertheless a
consolation in having these familiar articles in her possession once
more; thes
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