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'May she so, lady?' said he 'You shall know no h slohen E the resentment

and fear, which the man's behaviour had roused, she desired hinora is alive,' said he, 'for h;

his excellenza has shut her up in the chae of her I was going to have told you,

you ht see her--but now--'

Euish by this speech, had

now only to ask Barnardine's forgiveness, and to conjure, that he would

let her visit her aunt He complied with less reluctance, than she expected, and told her, that,

if she would repair, on the following night, when the Signor was retired

to rest, to the postern-gate of the castle, she should, perhaps, see

Madame Montoni Amid all the thankfulness, which Eht she observed a malicious triumph in his manner, when he

pronounced the last words; but, in the next ain thanked him, commended her aunt to his

pity, and assured him, that she would herself reward hiood night, and retired,

unobserved, to her chamber It was a considerable time, before

the tuence had

occasioned, allowed Emily to think with clearness, or to be conscious of

the real dangers, that still surrounded Madaitation subsided, she perceived, that her aunt was yet the

prisoner of a ht fall a