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Valancourt!

Whoever it was, he instantly struck a the thickets on the left, and

disappeared, while Emily, her eyes fixed on the place, whence he

had vanished, and her fra so excessively, that she could

scarcely support herself, remained, for some moments, unable to quit the

spot, and scarcely conscious of existence With her recollection, her

strength returned, and she hurried toward the house, where she did not

venture to enquire who had been in the gardens, lest she should betray

her e to recollect the

figure, air and features of the person she had just seen

Her view of hiloom had rendered it

so i with exactness; yet the

general appearance of his figure, and his abrupt departure, made her

still believe, that this person was Valancourt Soht, that her fancy, which had been occupied by the idea of hiht: but this conjecture was

fleeting If it was himself whom she had seen, she wondered ained adarden; but as often as her ier had been adness to betray her doubts; and the evening was passed in

anxious conjecture, and in efforts to dishts