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When, after a long absence, her senses returned, Eh she trembled with anxiety to enquire

further on the subject of her alarm, she found herself too ill at

present, to dare the intelligence which it was possible shedisht weep

and think at liberty, she endeavoured to recollect the exact air of the

person, whoave her

the figure of Valancourt She had, indeed, scarcely a doubt, that it was

he whoardener had fired: for the manner

of the latter person, as described by Annette, was not that of a robber;

nor did it appear probable, that a robber would have come alone, to

break into a house so spacious as this

When Eht herself sufficiently recovered, to listen to what

Jean ht have to relate, she sent for hiht lead to a knowledge of the person, who

had been shot, or of the consequence of the wound; and, after severely

reprient

enquiry to be hbourhood for the discovery of the wounded

person, she dismissed him, and herself remained in the same state of

terrible suspense All the tenderness she had ever felt for Valancourt,

was recalled by the sense of his danger; and the more she considered the