The Mysteries of Udolpho

These considerations led her to the remembrance of

her father's paternal domain, which his affairs had formerly compelled

him to dispose of to M. Quesnel, and which she frequently wished to

regain, because St. Aubert had lamented, that the chief lands of his

ancestors had passed into another family, and because they had been his

birth-place and the haunt of his early years. To the estate at Tholouse

she had no peculiar attachment, and it was her wish to dispose of this,

that she might purchase her paternal domains, if M. Quesnel could be

prevailed on to part with them, which, as he talked much of living in

Italy, did not appear very improbable.