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'Yet Monsieur Valancourt'--said her aunt 'O,what she would have said, 'do not let lance on that

subject: do not let ly

self-interested' She ied the topic, and continued with

Madaht

At that hour, the castle was perfectly still, and every inhabitant of

it, except herself, see

the wide and lonely galleries, dusky and silent, she felt forlorn

and apprehensive of--she scarcely knehat; but when, entering the

corridor, she recollected the incident of the preceding night, a dread

seized her, lest a subject of alarm, similar to that, which had befallen

Annette, should occur to her, and which, whether real, or ideal, would,

she felt, have an almost equal effect upon her weakened spirits The

chamber, to which Annette had alluded, she did not exactly know, but

understood it to be one of those shea fearful look forward into the gloo to a door, from whence issued a low

sound, she hesitated and paused; and, during the delay of that moment,

her fears so much increased, that she had no power to , that she heard a human voice within, she was somewhat

revived; but, in the next moment, the door was opened, and a person,