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Meanwhile, Eain the letters of her friends, whose

expressions of esteem and kindness were very necessary consolations

to her heart, awakened as it was by the late interview to eret

The invitation to Chateau-le-Blanc was pressed with so thened it by a e from the

Countess, and the occasion of it was so important to her friend, that

Eh she wished to remain

in the quiet shades of her native ho there alone, since Valancourt was again in the

neighbourhood Soe of scenery and

the society of her friends ht contribute, more than retireain appeared, she desired hiive a detail of his

adventure in the north apartments, and to tell by what means he became a

companion of the banditti, hom the Count had found him

He immediately obeyed, while Annette, who had not yet had leisure to

ask him many questions, on the subject, prepared to listen, with a

countenance of extre to re spirits, in the castle of Udolpho, and of

her own sagacity in believing in the at the

consciousness of her late credulity, observed, that, if Ludovico's

adventure could justify Annette's superstition, he had probably not been