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'What was the chevalier's name, Dorothee?' said Emily

'Why that I will not tell even to you, ma'amselle, for evil may come of

it I once heard from a person, who is since dead, that the Marchioness

was not in law the wife of the Marquis, for that she had before been

privately entleman she was so much attached to, and was

afterwards afraid to own it to her father, as a very stern ave , the Marquis was ht, when the

chevalier I spoke of had been at the chateau, and, at last, his ill

treatment of my lady made her quite miserable He would see hardly any

visitors at the castle, and made her live almost by herself I was

her constant attendant, and saw all she suffered, but still she never

coone on thus, for near a year,had made her so,--but, alas! I fear it

orse than that'

'Worse! Dorothee,' said Emily, 'can that be possible?' 'I fear it was so, e appearances But I will

only tell what happened My lord, the Marquis--' 'Hush, Dorothee, what sounds were those?' said Eed countenance, and, while they both listened, they heard,