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When her recollection was more complete, she raised herself and went,

but with only a faint hope, to examine whether the door was unfastened

It was so, and she then stepped tiallery, but paused

there, uncertain which way she should proceed Her first as to

gather soth, turned her

steps to go to the lesser hall, where Annette and the other servants

usually waited

Every where, as she passed, she heard, from a distance, the uproar of

contention, and the figures and faces, which she es, struck her el of light, encoth, she reached

the lesser hall, which was silent and deserted, but, panting for breath,

she sat down to recover herself The total stillness of this place was

as awful as the tumult, from which she had escaped: but she had now tihts, to reer, and

to consider of some means of safety She perceived, that it was useless

to seek Madah the wide extent and intricacies of the

castle, now, too, when every avenue seemed to be beset by ruffians; in