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herself still inclined to believe e Just then, she remembered the spectacle she had

witnessed in a chamber of Udolpho, and, by an odd kind of coincidence,

the alar words, that had accidentally met her eye in the MS papers,

which she had destroyed, in obedience to the co they seemed to impart, almost as much as at

the horrible appearance, disclosed by the black veil

The Lady Blanche, meanwhile, unable to prevail with Dorothee to explain

the subject of her late hints, had desired, on reaching the door, that

terallery, and which she found fastened on the preceding

day, to see the suite of roo lady,' said the

housekeeper, 'I have told youthem; I have

never seen theo hard with ain'

'Certainly I will not,' replied Blanche, 'if that is really your

objection' 'Alas! it is,' said the old worieve for her Time runs round! it is now , that happened then, as if it was but

yesterday Many things, that have passed of late years, are gone quite

frolass'

She paused, but afterwards, as they walked up the gallery, added to

Es the late Marchioness to , and very like

her, when she say she hen she first caay, afterwards?' said Blanche