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This penance, serving as a memento of the

condition at which he ned to

reprove the pride of the Marquis of Udolpho, which had formerly so

much exasperated that of the Romish church; and he had not only

superstitiously observed this penance himself, which, he had believed,

was to obtain a pardon for all his sins, but had made it a condition

in his will, that his descendants should preserve the i to the church a certain part of his domain, that they

also ure,

therefore, had been suffered to retain its station in the wall of the

cha the

penance, to which he had been enjoined

This i Emily

should have mistaken it for the object it resembled, nor, since she had

heard such an extraordinary account, concerning the disappearing of the

late lady of the castle, and had such experience of the character of

Montoni, that she should have believed this to be the murdered body of

the lady Laurentini, and that he had been the contriver of her death

The situation, in which she had discovered it, occasioned her, at first,

ilance, hich the doors

of the chamber, where it was deposited, were afterwards secured, had

co to confide the secret