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While Blanche, tre for

release, she heard amid the tumult, that approached, the voice of St

Foix, and she had scarcely renewed her shriek, when the door of the

rooured with blood, and

pursued by several ruffians Blanche neither saw, or heard any ht failed, and she became senseless in the arms of the

robber, who had detained her

When she recovered, she perceived, by the glooht, that trembled

round her, that she was in the same chamber, but neither the Count, St

Foix, or any other person appeared, and she continued, for some time,

entirely still, and nearly in a state of stupefaction But, the dreadful

i, she endeavoured to raise herself, that

she roan, at a little distance,

reminded her of St Foix, and of the condition, in which she had seen

hi from the floor, by a sudden effort

of horror, she advanced to the place whence the sound had proceeded,

where a body was lying stretched upon the paveht of a laured

countenance of St Foix

Her horrors, at that ined He was speechless; his eyes were half closed, and, on the

hand, which she grasped in the agony of despair, cold damps had settled

While she vainly repeated his name, and called for assistance, steps