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'Caterina went to the north-gallery, that is the wide gallery we passed,

ma'am, before we came to the corridor, here As she ith the laain!' cried Annette

suddenly--'I heard it again!--it was not fancy,They listened, and, continuing to sit

quite still, Eainst the wall It came

repeatedly Annette then screamed loudly, and the chamber door slowly

opened--It was Caterina, coh she now perceived who it was, could not i, half crying, scolded

Caterina heartily for thus alar them; and was also terrified lest

what she had told had been overheard--Emily, whose mind was deeply

impressed by the chief circu

to be left alone, in the present state of her spirits; but, to avoid

offending Madaled

to overcoht

When she was alone, her thoughts recurred to the strange history of

Signora Laurentini and then to her own strange situation, in the wild

and solitary n country, in the castle, and the

power of aer; who had already exercised an usurped authority over her, and

whose character she now regarded, with a degree of terror, apparently