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'If this is a person who has designs upon the castle,' said she, 'my

curiosity may prove fatal to me; yet the mysterious music, and the

lamentations I heard, must surely have proceeded froht of her unfortunate aunt, and, shuddering with grief

and horror, the suggestions of iination seized her mind with all

the force of truth, and she believed, that the form she had seen was

supernatural She trembled, breathed with difficulty, an icy coldness

touched her cheeks, and her fears for a while overcament

Her resolution now forsook her, and she deterure should

appear, not to speak to it

Thus the time passed, as she sat at her caselooht; for she saw obscurely in

the ht only the mountains and woods, a cluster of towers, that

forle of the castle, and the terrace below; and heard

no sound, except, now and then, the lonely watch-word, passed by the

centinels on duty, and afterwards the steps of the uard, and whom she knew at a distance on the ralittered in the moonbeam, and then, by the few short words,

in which they hailed their fellows of the night Emily retired within

her chamber, while they passed the caseain quiet It was now very late, she earied with

watching, and began to doubt the reality of what she had seen on the