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and Michael having dismounted to open it, they entered between rows of

ancient oak and chesnut, whose interled branches forloomy and desolate in the appearance of

this avenue, and its lonely silence, that E the ave ato his words, such

as she had not suspected when he uttered them These apprehensions,

however, she tried to check, considering that they were probably the

effect of a ination, which her father's situation, and

a consideration of her own circumstances, had made sensible to every

impression They passed slowly on, for they were now alether with the unevenness of the ground, and the frequent roots of

old trees, that shot up above the soil, made it necessary to proceed

with caution On a sudden Michael stopped the carriage; and, as St

Aubert looked froure at so up the avenue The dusk would not pero on

'This seems a wild place,' said Michael; 'there is no house hereabout,

don't your honour think we had better turn back?'