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She found her aunt in her dressing-roohted countenance alarth of mind to be silent on the subject, that still made

her shudder, and which was ready to burst from her lips In her aunt's

apartment she remained, till they both descended to dinner There she

entlemen lately arrived, who had a kind of busy seriousness in

their looks, which was sohts

seemed too much occupied by some deep interest, to suffer them to bestow

much attention either on Emily, or Madame Montoni They spoke little,

and Montoni less Emily, as she now looked on him, shuddered The horror

of the chamber rushed on her mind Several times the colour faded from

her cheeks, and she feared, that illness would betray her eth of her resolution

reed herself to converse, and

even tried to look cheerful

Montoni evidently laboured under soitated a weaker mind, or a more susceptible heart, but which

appeared, from the sternness of his countenance, only to bend up his