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To withdraw her thoughts, however, from the subject of her misfortunes,

she attee, and,

at length, she threw aside the book, and deter chaination was pleased with the

view of ancient grandeur, and an emotion of h rooms, obscure and desolate, where no

footsteps had passed probably for e

history of the forht to her

recollection the veiled picture, which had attracted her curiosity,

on the preceding night, and she resolved to exah the chaitated; its connection with the late lady of the castle, and the

conversation of Annette, together with the circu a ree of

terror But a terror of this nature, as it occupies and expands the

h expectation, is purely sublime, and leads

us, by a kind of fascination, to seek even the object, from which we

appear to shrink

E paused a moment at

the door, before she attempted to open it, she then hastily entered the

chamber, and went towards the picture, which appeared to be enclosed

in a fra in a dark part of the rooain, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil; but

instantly let it fall--perceiving that what it had concealed was no