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When she turned frolanced upon the door she

had so carefully guarded, on the preceding night, and she now deter to remove the chairs,

she perceived, that they were already ined, when, in the next minute, she perceived that

the door was fastened--She felt, as if she had seen an apparition The

door of the corridor was locked as she had left it, but this door, which

could be secured only on the outside,the

night She becaain in

a chamber, thus liable to intrusion, so remote, too, as it was from

the family, and she determined to mention the circue

After soreat hall, and to the

rooht, where breakfast was

spread, and her aunt was alone, for Montoni had been walking over the

environs of the castle, exa for some ti, and her heart softened towards her, with an affection,

that shewed itself in her manner, rather than in words, while she

carefully avoided the appearance of having noticed, that she was

unhappy She seized the opportunity of Montoni's absence to mention the