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When she had coh she still anxiously listened, and often started at ideal sounds,

that appeared to issue fro sat in darkness for so all which tian to have serious apprehensions for her; but, not

daring to venture down into the castle, was compelled to remain in

uncertainty, as to the cause of this unusual absence

Emily often stole to the stair-case door, to listen if any step

approached, but still no sound alarht, she once more rested on her dark and desolate

couch, and bathed the pilloith innocent tears She thought of her

deceased parents and then of the absent Valancourt, and frequently

called upon their naned,

was propitious to thesorrow of her ht the notes of distant

this

to be the instruht, she rose, and

stepped softly to the casement, to which the sounds appeared to come

from a lower room

n a few moments, their soft melody was acco not of iht she had somewhere heard before; yet, if

this was not fancy, it was, at most, a very faint recollection It