whole being roused and excited by the  of 
indignant defiance. Her mind was crowded with tumultuous 
thoughts and . The sense of freedom won and tri- 
umph achieved predominated. She went on in a sort of wordnetdesire, 
unconscious of any  around her, exulting recklessly over 
her dearly-bought independence. She paused on reaching the 
garden wall, and this simple physical barrier subdued at once 
her haughty . She turned back, and slowly retraced her 
steps, with a grave and altered mien. A wooden bench stood 
in the deep wordnetfear of the beech-tree, she lingered for awhile 
near it, motionless and pensive, and at length sat down, looking 
before her in the same abstracted . 

The garden of Mademoiselle Dantin was a mere grassy 
slope, extending at the back of the low and white-walled school- 
house. The parlor which Nathalie had left, looked almost 
dark, and a solitary light burned upstairs in the sleeping room 
of the pupils, for a few still remained in vacation time. She 
abstractedly watched their wordnetfear moving to and fro across 
the curtains, until the light was suddenly extinguished, and the 
whole building relapsed into . Beyond the school, at 
some  from it and on a commanding eminence, stood 
the chateau of Sainville, a gray, turreted, lordly-looking man- 
sion,