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Dorothee proht, with the keys of

the chaood repose, and departed E upon the , in awful expectation, for a return of the

unbroken, except by

thesounds of the woods, as they waved in the breeze, and then

by the distant bell of the convent, striking one She noithdrew

fro melancholy

reveries, which the loneliness of the hour assisted, the stillness was

suddenly interrupted not by music, but by very uncommon sounds, that

see her own, or from one

below The terrible catastrophe, that had been related to her, together

with the mysterious circumstances, said to have since occurred in the

chateau, had so much shocked her spirits, that she now sunk, for a

moment, under the weakness of superstition The sounds, however, did not

return, and she retired, to forget in sleep the disastrous story she had

heard