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companions had been for soeneral reverie was interrupted by the entrance of a stranger, Monsieur

Bonnac, who had just quitted the chanes He appeared

much disturbed, but Emily fancied, that his countenance haddrawn the abbess to a

distant part of the roo

which she seemed to listen with earnest attention, and he to speak

with caution, and a ree of interest When he had

concluded, he bowed silently to the rest of the company, and quitted the

roo to the chah not without some reluctance, and

Lady Blanche remained with the boarders below

At the door of the chamber they met the confessor, whom, as he lifted

up his head on their approach, E father; but he passed on, without noticing her, and

they entered the apartnes,

with one nun watching in the chair beside her Her countenance was so

ed, that Emily would scarcely have recollected her, had she

not been prepared to do so: it was ghastly, and overspread with gloomy

horror; her dim and hollow eyes were fixed on a crucifix, which she

held upon her bosoht, as not to

perceive the abbess and E her heavy eyes, she fixed the, exclai hours!'