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ht a little longer

delude society, and ain the fortunes he had

lost

The hints which had been thrown out to Valancourt, concerning Montoni's

character and condition, were too true; but it was now left to time and

occasion, to unfold the circumstances, both of what had, and of what had

not been hinted, and to time and occasion we commit them

Madame Montoni was not of a nature to bear injuries with nity: her exasperated pride displayed itself in all

the violence and acriulated

e, even to herself, that she had in any

degree provoked conte, that she alone was to be pitied, and Montoni alone to be

censured; for, as her ation, she seldom understood its force but when it happened to be

violated towards herself: her vanity had already been severely shocked

by a discovery of Montoni's contempt; it remained to be farther reproved

by a discovery of his circuh its

furniture discovered a part of the truth to unprejudiced persons, told

nothing to those ere blinded by a resolution to believe whatever

they wished Madaht herself little less than

a princess, possessing a palace at Venice, and a castle a the

Apennines To the castle di Udolpho, indeed, Montoni so for a feeeks to examine into its condition, and to receive some

rents; for it appeared that he had not been there for two years, and

that, during this period, it had been inhabited only by an old servant,

whom he called his steward