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and then, while he raised it higher, I saw the face of anotherover his shoulder I know not hoas, but, though

my sas upon the table before me, I had not the power just then to

seize it, but sat quite still, watching them, with htwhat

they should do, for I heard them whisper, and they stood in the saht I perceived other

faces in the duskiness beyond the door, and heard louder whispers'

'This door surprises me,' said Emily, 'because I understood, that

the Count had caused the arras to be lifted, and the walls exae through which you

had departed' 'It does not appear so extraordinary to me, madam,' replied Ludovico,

'that this door should escape notice, because it was formed in a narrow

compartment, which appeared to be part of the outall, and, if the

Count had not passed over it, he ht it was useless to

search for a door where it seee could coe was formed within the

wall itself--