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'Do you indeed live,' said Eth, 'or is this but a terrible

apparition?' she received no answer, and again she snatched up the hand

'This is substance,' she exclaimed, 'but it is cold--cold as marble!'

She let it fall 'O, if you really live, speak!' said Emily, in a voice

of desperation, 'that I may not lose my senses--say you know me!' 'I do live,' replied Madame Montoni, 'but--I feel that I aerly, and groaned They were

both silent for some moments Then Emily endeavoured to soothe her, and

enquired what had reduced her to this present deplorable state

Montoni, when he removed her to the turret under the i attempted his life, had ordered the men employed on

the occasion, to observe a strict secrecy concerning her To this he was

influenced by a double motive He meant to debar her from the comfort

of Emily's visits, and to secure an opportunity of privately dispatching

her, should any new circuestions of his suspecting mind His consciousness of the hatred he

deserved it was natural enough should at first led him to attribute to

her the atteh there

was no other reason to believe that she was concerned in that atrocious

design, his suspicions remained; he continued to confine her in the