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While speaking, he had again attached the string and drawn it tight

"The defective string is quickly repaired, and you can recouitar to Natalie

She sadly shook her head "It is passed," said she, "I can exult and

sing no arden See how black

and threatening these pines rise up, and do not these htens raves and these watchers of the dead! Come,

let us go to our rooht--ill sleep and dreao into the house"

And like a frightened roe she fled toward the house, the others

following her

In an hour all was silent in the villa The lights were successively

extinguished in Natalie's and Marianne's chambers; only in Carlo's

little chamber yet burned a dull, solitary laer passed theas he restlessly walked

his roouished, and all

was dark and still

About this ti slowly and cautiously

through the garden Soon it stood still, and then one ht have

supposed it to be a deception, and that only the wind shaking the pines

had caused that hted place, where no bush or tree threw its shade, and, as if