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But presently I akened by the noise I had heard

before, and it seemed to come from that part of the chamber, where the

bed stood; and then, whether it was the story I had been reading that

affected e reports, that had been spread of

these apartain, I fancied I saw a man's face within the dusky curtains'

At the mention of this, E the spectacle she had herself witnessed there with Dorothee

'I confess, madam, my heart did fail me, at that instant,' continued

Ludovico, 'but a return of the noise drew my attention from the bed, and

I then distinctly heard a sound, like that of a key, turning in a lock,

but what surprised me more was, that I saw no door where the sound

seemed to come from In the next moment, however, the arras near the

bed was slowly lifted, and a person appeared behind it, entering from

a small door in the wall He stood for aunder the arras which concealed the upper part of

his face except his eyes scowling beneath the tapestry as he held it;