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was so violent that he resolved to quit Geneva 

 for ever, and remove to a city in the south of 

 France, whese he might continue his business; 

 but Madeleine was tired of a town life, and per- 

 suaded her father to give up commerce and re- 

 tire to a little property he possessed in the dis- 

 trict of Beaufort, in Savoy. She had formed 

 delightful pictures in her imagination of the 

 occupations of the farm, the vineyard, and the 

 dairy, and she longed to realise them. 



Her indulgent father yielded to her wishes, 

 and they removed from all the comforts of Ge- 

 neva to that remote and mountainous district. 

 When they arrived, and that she saw the change 

 which she had persuaded her father to make, 

 she felt sev 7 ere regret for having interfered ; and 

 would then have persuaded him to return, but 

 he had arranged every thing for his residence in 

 Savoy he had made his decision, and he would 

 not let it be again shaken. 



His activity in a short time made the house 

 comfortable, and he employed his time and his 

 money in forming a garden and an extensive vine- 

 yard. The industry which he had devoted to 

 trade, he now directed to the cultivation of the 

 vine, and his unwearied assiduity was rewarded 

 in a few years by a profusion of grapes, of which 

 he made excellent wine. Every thing seemed to 

 prosper, and Madeleine dearly loved a place 

 where they had conquered so many difficulties, 



