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When Lady Blanche returned to the chateau, instead of going to the

apart over that

part of the edifice, which she had not yet examined, of which the h what she had seen of

thein the for passed up the great stair-case,

and through the oak gallery, she entered upon a long suite of cha with tapestry, or wainscoted with cedar,

the furniture of which looked almost as antient as the rooms themselves;

the spacious fire-places, where no e of cold desolation; and the whole suite had so lect and desertion, that it see upon the walls, had been the last to

inhabit theallery, one end of

which was terminated by a back stair-case, and the other by a door,

that seemed to com fastened, she descended the stair-case, and, opening a door in

the wall, a few steps down, found herself in a small square room, that

formed part of the west turret of the castle Three s presented

each a separate and beautiful prospect; that to the north, overlooking

Languedoc; another to the west, the hills ascending towards the

Pyrenees, whose awful su the south, gave the Mediterranean, and a part of the wild

shores of Rousillon, to the eye

Having left the turret, and descended the narrow stair-case, she found

herself in a dusky passage, where she wandered, unable to find her way,

till impatience yielded to apprehension, and she called for assistance