member her look at the time-death was in it! I can almoft fancy I fee her now.There the lay, ma'amfelle-her face was upon the pillow there! This black counterpane was not upon the bed then; it was laid on, after her death, and fhe was laid out upon it."

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Emily turned to look within the dufky curtains, as if she could have seen the countenance of which Dorothée fpoke. The edge of the white pillow only appeared above the blackness of the pall, but, as her eyes wandered over the pall itself, she fancied the faw it move. Without fpeaking, fhe caught Dorothée's arm, who, furprised by the action, and by the look of terror that accompanied it, turned her eyes from Emily to the bed, where, in the next moment fhe, too, faw the pall flowly lifted, and fall again.

Emily attempted to go, but Dorothée ftood fixed and gazing upon the bed; and, at length, faid-It is only the wind, that waves it, ma'amfelle; we have left all the

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doors open: fee how the air waves the lamp, too. It is only the wind.".

She had fcarcely uttered thefe` words, when the pall was more violently agitated than before; but Emily, fomewhat ashamed of her terrors, ftepped back to the bed, willing to be convinced that the wind only had occafioned her alarm; when, as fhe gazed within the curtains, the pall moved again, and, in the next moment, the apparition of a human countenance rofe above it.

Screaming with terror, they both fled, and got out of the chamber as fast as their trembling limbs would bear them, leaving. open the doors of all the rooms, through! which they paffed. When they reached the ftair-cafe, Dorothée threw open a chamber-door, where fome of the female fervants flept, and funk breathlefs on the bed, while Emily, deprived of all presence of mind, made only a feeble attempt to conceal the occafion of her terror from the aftonifhed fervants; and, though Dorothée, when she could fpeak, endeavoured to laugh at her

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own fright, and, was joined by Emily, no remonftrances could prevail with the fervants, who had quickly taken the alarm, to país even the remainder of the night in a room fo near to thefe terrific chambers.

Dorothée having accompanied Emily to her own apartment, they then began to talk over, with fome degree of coolness, the ftrange circumftance, that had just occur red; and Emily would almoft have doubted her own perceptions, had not those of Dorothée attefted their truth. Having now mentioned what he had obferved in the outer chamber, fhe afked the housekeeper, whether he was certain no door had been left unfastened, by which a perfon might fecretly have entered the apartments? Dorothée replied, that she had constantly kept the keys of the feveral doors in her own poffeffion; that, when she had gone her rounds through the caftle, as the frequently did, to examine if all was fafe, she had tried thefe doors among the rest, and had always found them faftened. It

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was, therefore, impoffible, fhe added, that any perfon could have got admittance into the apartments; and, if they could-it was very improbable they fhould have chosen to fleep in a place fo cold and forlorn.

Emily obferved, that their vifit to thefe chambers had, perhaps, been watched, and that some person, for a frolic, had followed them into the rooms, with a defign to frighten them, and, while they were in the oriel, had taken the opportunity of concealing himself in the bed.

Dorothée allowed, that this was poffible, till she recollected, that, on entering the apartments, fhe had turned the key of the outer door, and this, which had been done to prevent their vifit being noticed by any of the family, who might happen to be up, muft effectually have excluded every perfon, except themselves, from the chambers; and fhe now perfifted in affirming, that the ghaftly, countenance fhe had feen was nothing human, but fome dreadful apparition.

Emily was very folemnly affected. Of whatever nature might be the appearance fhe had witneffed, whether human or fupernatural, the fate of the deceased Marchionefs was a truth not to be doubted; and this unaccountable circumstance, oc-. curring in the very scene of her fufferings, affected Emily's imagination with a fuperftitious awe, to which, after having detected the fallacies at Udolpho, fhe might not have yielded, had he been ignorant of the unhappy story, related by the housekeeper. Her fhe now folemnly conjured to conceal the occurrence of this night, and to make light of the terror she had already betrayed, that the Count might not be diftreffed by reports, which would certainly spread alarm and confusion among his family. "Time," fhe added, "may explain this mysterious affair; meanwhile let us watch the event in filence."

Dorothée readily acquiefced; but the now recollected that he had left all the doors of the north fuite of rooms open, and,

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