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Emily, comforted by this prospect of release, e, with conciliating care, to prevent any fatal

mischief between the persons who so lately had persecuted and insulted

her Her spirits revived, when she heard once rand canal, and at length entered

again between its stately piazzas The zendaletto stopped at Montoni's

mansion, and the Count hastily led her into the hall, where Montoni took

his ar in a low voice, on which Morano kissed

the hand he held, notwithstanding Eood evening, with an accent and look she could not

misunderstand, returned to his zendaletto with Montoni

Emily, in her own apartment, considered with intense anxiety all the

unjust and tyrannical conduct of Montoni, the dauntless perseverance

of Morano, and her own desolate situation, removed from her friends and

country She looked in vain to Valancourt, confined by his profession

to a distant kingdoave her comfort to know,

that there was, at least, one person in the world, ould syerly to release her

Yet she deter the

reasons she had to regret the having rejected his better judg Montoni; reasons, however, which could not induce her to

lament the delicacy and disinterested affection that had e The approaching intervieith

her uncle she regarded with soree of hope, for she determined to

represent to him the distresses of her situation, and to entreat that he