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your father performed the services you spoke of?'

'It was a little before he canora,'

replied Maddelina, 'and that is about eighteen years ago'

This was near the period, when Signora Laurentini had been said to

disappear, and it occurred to Emily, that Marco had assisted in that

mysterious affair, and, perhaps, had been eestion fixed her in such profound reverie, that Maddelina

quitted the room, unperceived by her, and she remained unconscious of

all around her, for a considerable ti which, her spirits beco calht never arrive; and had

sufficient resolution to endeavour to withdraw her thoughts fro the few books, which

even in the hurry of her departure froe, she sat doith one of them at her pleasant casee to the landscape, whose

beauty gradually soothed her entle , and saw the sun descend the

western sky, throw all his polea sails, as he sunk

aht, her softened

thoughts returned to Valancourt; she again recollected every

circuht

assist her conjecture, concerning his i confirmed in the supposition, that it was his voice she had

heard there, she looked back to that glooret