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It was now the second watch of the night, and about the tiure had before appeared E steps of the

sentinels, on the raain silent, she took her station at the case her laht escape notice froht, for heavy vapours surrounded

it, and, often rolling over the disk, left the scene below in total

darkness It was in one of these moments of obscurity, that she observed

a s at soazed, it disappeared, and, thefrom the lurid

and heavy thunder clouds, she turned her attention to the heavens, where

the vivid lightnings darted from cloud to cloud, and flashed silently on

the woods below

She loved to catch, in the looht upon a distant mountain,

and, while the sudden splendour illumined all its recesses of rock and

wood, the rest of the scene remained in deep shadow; at others, partial

features of the castle were revealed by the gli to the east rampart, the turret above, or the fortifications

beyond; and then, perhaps, the whole edifice with all its towers, its