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I think it is the weakness of mine eyes,

That shapes this monstrous apparition

It coht dispelled frolooms of superstition, but

not those of apprehension The Count Morano was the first ihts, and then came a train of anticipated

evils, which she could neither conquer, nor avoid She rose, and, to

relieve her mind from the busy ideas, that tormented it, compelled

herself to notice external objects Frorandeur of the scene, closed nearly on all sides by

alpine steeps, whose tops, peeping over each other, faded from the eye

in misty hues, while the promontories beloere dark oods, that

swept down to their base, and stretched along the narrow vallies

The rich pohtful to Emily; and she

vieith astonish a vast extent of rock, and now partly in decay, the grandeur of

the ramparts below, and the towers and battlements and various features

of the fabric above Froht wandered over the cliffs and

woods into the valley, along which foas of an oppositein the

sun-bea pines, till it was entirely