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Pity for her aunt and anxiety for herself

alternately swayed her deterht came, before she

had decided upon her conduct She heard the castle clock strike

eleven--twelve--and yet her mind wavered The tier: and then the interest she felt

for her aunt overca Annette follow

her to the outer door of the vaulted gallery, and there await her

return, she descended from her chamber The castle was perfectly

still, and the great hall, where so lately she had witnessed a scene of

dreadful contention, now returned only the whispering footsteps of the

two solitary figures gliding fearfully between the pillars, and gleamed

only to the feeble la

shadows of the pillars and by the catching lights between, often

stopped, i in the distant obscurity

of the perspective; and, as she passed these pillars, she feared to turn

her eyes toward theure start out from

behind their broad shaft She reached, however, the vaulted gallery,

without interruption, but unclosed its outer door with a tre Annette not to quit it and to keep it a little open, that

she ht be heard if she called, she delivered to her the lamp, which

she did not dare to take herself because of the men on watch, and,

alone, stepped out upon the dark terrace Every thing was so still,