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As Blanche sat, attentive to the narrative, that rendered the

scenes doubly interesting, and resigned to soleround, once polluted by these

events, her reverie was suddenly interrupted by a sound, that ca The travellers

listened with eager hope, and, as the wind blew stronger, fancied, that

the sound ca little

doubt, that it proceeded from the inn they were in search of, the Count

deterer, though

still an uncertain light, as shebroken clouds; and the

travellers, led by the sound, reco the brow

of the precipice, preceded by a single torch, that now contended with

thethey should reach the inn soon

after sun-set, had neglected to provide more In silent caution they

followed the sound, which was heard but at intervals, and which, after

souides endeavoured, however, to point

their course to the quarter, whence it had issued, but the deep roaring

of a torrent soon seized their attention, and presently they came to

a tremendous chasress

Blanche alighted frouides traversed the edge in search of a bridge, which,