104 EGLANTINE OR

In this happy country, which luxury has not yet -
corrupted, you will find that pure simplicity of
manners and customs so rarely met with in other
places. The women are amiable, educated, and
virtuous.

Doralice and Eglantine often went to Lausanne to
visit a young widow named Isabella, who possessed
with great beauty of person many agreeable talents,
and a most attractive mind. She became a very
dear friend to Doralice and Eglantine, and fre-
quently returned to Morges with them. They often
went for long walks together, and occasionally took
a boat on the lake for a few hours. They knew
about fifteen people, with whom they associated and
passed many pleasant evenings. When the weather
permitted, they would all join in getting up pic-nic
parties. Eglantine was the principal ornament of
their circle. She was not pretty now, but she made
herself so agreeable by her talents and disposition
that she was loved by all who knew her. She had
preserved her fine figure, the only thing that could
now be admired in her person. She did not dress
expensively, but with great taste. Her face was full
of fine expression, though ’tis true she had lost that
beauty which attracts so many.