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Emily turned to look within the dusky curtains, as if she could have

seen the countenance of which Dorothee spoke The edge of the white

pillow only appeared above the blackness of the pall, but, as her eyes

wandered over the pall itself, she fancied she saw it ht Dorothee's arm, who, surprised by the action, and

by the look of terror that accompanied it, turned her eyes from Emily to

the bed, where, in the next ain E upon the bed;

and, at length, said--'It is only the wind, that waves it, ma'amselle;

we have left all the doors open: see how the air waves the lamp,

too--It is only the wind'

She had scarcely uttered these words, when the pall was itated than before; but Emily, somewhat asha to be convinced that the wind only had

occasioned her alarain, and, in the next moment, the apparition of a hu with terror, they both fled, and got out of the cha li open the doors

of all the rooh which they passed When they reached the

stair-case, Dorothee threw open a chamber door, where some of the female

servants slept, and sunk breathless on the bed; while Emily, deprived of

all presence of mind, made only a feeble attempt to conceal the occasion

of her terror froh Dorothee, when