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Soon after twelve, having enjoined Annette to be wakeful, and to call

her, should any change appear for the worse, Eht, and withdrew to her chamber Her spirits were

more than usually depressed by the piteous condition of her aunt, whose

recovery she scarcely dared to expect To her own misfortunes she saw no

period, inclosed as she was, in a remote castle, beyond the reach of any

friends, had she possessed such, and beyond the pity even of strangers;

while she knew herself to be in the power of a man capable of any

action, which his interest, or his aest

Occupied by melancholy reflections and by anticipations as sad, she

did not retire ihtfully on her open

case in the

retted contrast with the state of her mind;

but the lonely

landscape, gradually soothed her emotions and softened her to tears

She continued to weep, for soentle sense of her th, took the

handkerchief from her eyes, she perceived, before her, on the terrace