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the safety, of Montoni Fro, and froloomy castle, of which she had heard

some mysterious hints, her sick heart recoiled in despair, and she

experienced, that, though her mind was already occupied by peculiar

distress, it was still alive to the influence of new and local

circumstance; why else did she shudder at the idea of this desolate

castle?

As the travellers still ascended a the pine forests, steep rose over

steep, the mountains seemed to multiply, as they went, and as the

summit of one eth,

they reached a little plain, where the drivers stopped to rest the

nificence opened below, as

drew even from Madame Montoni a note of admiration Emily lost, for a

moment, her sorrows, in the immensity of nature Beyond the amphitheatre

of mountains, that stretched belohose tops appeared as numerous

almost, as the waves of the sea, and whose feet were concealed by the

forests--extended the cana of Italy, where cities and rivers, and

woods and all the glow of cultivation were ay confusion The

Adriatic bounded the horizon, into which the Po and the Brenta, after

winding through the whole extent of the landscape, poured their fruitful

waves E on the splendours of the world she was quitting,

of which the whole ht only to

increase her regret on leaving it; for her, Valancourt alone was in that

world; to him alone her heart turned, and for him alone fell her bitter

tears