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All within was still On looking round, his eye

was arrested by the portrait of the deceased Marchioness, upon which he

gazed, for a considerable ti examined the closet, he returned into the bed-rooht blaze of which revived his

spirits, which had begun to yield to the gloousts of wind alone broke at intervals this silence He no a

small table and a chair near the fire, took a bottle of wine, and some

cold provision out of his basket, and regaled himself When he had

finished his repast, he laid his sword upon the table, and, not feeling

disposed to sleep, drew from his pocket the book he had spoken of--It

was a volu stirred the fire upon the

hearth, he began to read, and his attention was soon wholly occupied by

the scenes, which the page disclosed

The Count, meanwhile, had returned to the supper-room, whither those of

the party, who had attended hi Dorothee's screa those chauests on

their precipitate retreat, and on the superstitious inclination which

had occasioned it, and this led to the question, Whether the spirit,