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While he paced the roohtful steps, and Madame Montoni sat

silently on a couch, at the upper end of it, waiting till the servant

returned, Eular solemnity and desolation of

the apartle lae Venetian ure of Montoni passing slowly along, his arms folded,

and his countenance shaded by the plume, that waved in his hat

From the contemplation of this scene, Emily's mind proceeded to the

apprehension of what she ht suffer in it, till the remembrance of

Valancourt, far, far distant! cah escaped her: but, trying to conceal her tears, she

walked away to one of the high s, that opened upon the ramparts,

belohich, spread the woods she had passed in her approach to the

castle But the night-shade sat deeply on the mountains beyond, and

their indented outline alone could be faintly traced on the horizon,

where a red streak yet glimmered in the west The valley betas

sunk in darkness The scene within, upon which Elooates, now entered, bending under a load of pine-branches, while two of

Montoni's Venetian servants folloith lights