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She looked fearfully towards the door of the stair-case, and

then, exa whether it was still fastened, found that it was so

Unable to conquer the uneasiness she felt at the prospect of sleeping

again in this remote and insecure apart the preceding night, her impatience to see Annette,

who this circumstance, became

extremely painful She wished also to question her, as to the object,

which had excited so much horror in her own mind, and which Annette on

the preceding evening had appeared to be in part acquainted with, though

her words were very remote froirl had been purposely misled by a false report: above

all she was surprised, that the door of the chauarded Such an instance of negligence al; the faint flashes it

threw upon the walls called up all the terrors of fancy, and she rose

to find her way to the habitable part of the castle, before it was quite

extinguished As she opened the chamber door, she heard reht issue upon the further end of the corridor,

which Annette and another servant approached 'I alad you are