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Montoni did not ees

across the country, towards the Apennine; during which journey, his

manner to Emily was so particularly severe, that this alone would have

confirmed her late conjecture, had any such confirmation been necessary

Her senses were now dead to the beautiful country, through which she

travelled Sometimes she was compelled to smile at the naivete of

Annette, in her reh, as a

scene of peculiar beauty recalled Valancourt to her thoughts, as

indeed seldom absent from them, and of whom she could never hope to hear

in the solitude, to which she was hastening

At length, the travellers began to ascend a the Apennines The

i these mountains,

and bethich the road wound, excluded all view but of the cliffs

aspiring above, except, that, now and then, an opening through the dark

woods allowed the eye a loom of these shades, their solitary silence, except when the breeze

swept over their summits, the tremendous precipices of the mountains,

that came partially to the eye, each assisted to raise the soleloorandeur, or of

dreadful sublilooination She was going she scarcely

knehither, under the dominion of a person, from whose arbitrary

disposition she had already suffered so much, to marry, perhaps, a man

who possessed neither her affection, or esteem; or to endure, beyond the

hope of succour, whatever punishht dictate--

The ht be the motive of the

journey, the more she beca her nuptials with Count Morano, with that secrecy, which

her resolute resistance had made necessary to the honour, if not to