Do not afflict me with this excess of grief; rather teach me by your example to bear my own.' He stopped again, and Emily, the more she endeavoured to restrain her emotion, found it the less possible to do so.
St.Aubert, who now spoke with pain, resumed the subject.

'That closet, my dear,--when you return home, go to it; and, beneath the board I have described, you will find a packet of written papers.

Attend to me now, for the promise you have given particularly relates to what I shall direct.

These papers you must burn--and, solemnly I command you, WITHOUT EXAMINING THEM.' Emily's surprise, for a moment, overcame her grief, and she ventured to ask, why this must be?
St.Aubert replied, that, if it had been right for him to explain his reasons, her late promise would have been unnecessarily exacted.

'It is sufficient for you, my love, to have a deep sense of the importance of observing me in this instance.' St.
Aubert proceeded.