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E, without

receiving any notice fro, except the

ar tasted no

food since the dinner of the preceding day, extre the asylum of her apartment to obtain

refreshment, and she was also very anxious to procure liberty for

Annette Willing, however, to defer venturing forth, as long as

possible, and considering, whether she should apply to Montoni, or to

the compassion of so

her aunt, at length, overcao to him, and to entreat, that he would suffer her to see

Madame Montoni

Meanwhile, it was too certain, from the absence of Annette, that some

accident had befallen Ludovico, and that she was still in confinement;

Emily, therefore, resolved also to visit the chaht, and, if the poor girl was yet

there, to inform Montoni of her situation

It was near noon, before she ventured froallery, whither she passed withouta sound, except, now and then, the echo of a distant

footstep It was unnecessary to call Annette, whose laallery, and who, bewailing her own and

Ludovico's fate, told Emily, that she should certainly be starved to

death, if she was not let out i her release of Montoni; but the terrors of hunger now

yielded to those of the Signor, and, when E, that her place of refuge reat hall, the sounds she heard and the people