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When her strength returned, she rose, and was suffered to leave

the hall, though her anxiety, having produced so Madame Montoni, had thus made a discovery of herself Towards

her chamber she now hastened, as fast as her steps would bear her, for

she still perceived, upon her passage, the sounds of confusion at a

distance, and she endeavoured, by taking her way through so the persons, whose looks had terrified her

before, as well as those parts of the castle, where the tuht

still rage

At length, she reached her cha secured the door of the

corridor, felt herself, for a ned in this remote apartment, which not even the faint murmur of

the most distant sounds now reached She sat down, near one of the

caseazed on the mountain-view beyond, the deep

repose of its beauty struck her with all the force of contrast, and she

could scarcely believe herself so near a scene of savage discord The

contending elements seemed to have retired from their natural spheres,

and to have collected themselves into the ned

Emily tried to tranquillize her spirits, but anxiety made her constantly

listen for some sound, and often look out upon the ramparts, where all,

however, was lonely and still As a sense of her own i Madahtened,

who, she remembered, had been fiercely threatened with confinement in