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Annette not yet appearing, Eone

to bed, and that nobody chose to call her up; and the prospect, that

presented itself, of passing the night in darkness, in this place, or

in some other equally forlorn (for she kneould be ih the intricacies of the galleries to her chaled terror and despondency froain an odd sound fro to breathe, but the

increasing voices below overcame every other sound Soon after, she

heard Montoni and his companions burst into the hall, who spoke, as

if they weretowards the

stair-case She now remembered, that theyall the terrors of the gallery, hurried

towards it with an intention of secreting herself in so, when the Signors were

retired, to find her way to her own room, or to that of Annette, which

was in a re the gallery, still hearing the

voices of persons beloho seemed to stop in conversation at the foot

of the stair-case, and then pausing for afurther into the darkness of the gallery, where she still

iined, fro,