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upon the obscurity beneath, and then upon the cloudless arch above,

enlightened only by the stars, Dorothee, in a low voice, resu, ma'amselle, that I well reht, soon after my lady's death, that I had sat up

later than usual, and I don't knoas, but I had been thinking

a great deal about my poor mistress, and of the sad scene I had lately

witnessed

The chateau was quite still, and I was in the chaood distance from the rest of the servants, and this, with theof, I suppose, made me low spirited, for I

felt very lonely and forlorn, as it were, and listened often, wishing to

hear a sound in the chateau, for you know, , one does not so one to bed, and I sat, thinking and thinking, till I was

almost afraid to look round the room, and my poor lady's countenance

often ca, and,