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here to relate it Ludovico san as

follows:

'You ht, when I sat up in the north

chamber, my lord, the Count, and Mons Henri accompaniedhappened to excite any alarone I

inclined to sleep, I sat down on the hearth with a book I had brought

with me to divert my mind I confess I did so like apprehension--'

'O very like it, I dare say,' interrupted Annette, 'and I dare say too,

if the truth was known, you shook from head to foot'

'Not quite so bad as that,' replied Ludovico, s, 'but several

times, as the histled round the castle, and shook the old

caseot up

and looked about ures

in the tapestry, which seemed to frown upon me, as I looked at them

I had sat thus for above an hour,' continued Ludovico, 'when again I

thought I heard a noise, and glanced my eyes round the roo any thing, I began to read

again, and, when I had finished the story I was upon, I felt drowsy, and

dropped asleep