Fate fits on these dark battlements, and frowns,
And, as the portals open to receive me,
Her voice, in fullen echoes through the courts,
Tells of a nameless deed.

W. W. Beman gt.

MYSTERIES

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CHAP. I.

"Where'er I roam, whatever realms I fee,
My heart untravell'd ftill fhall turn to thee."

GOLDSMITH

THE carriages were at the gates at an

early hour; the buftle of the domestics, paffing to and fro in the galleries, awakened Emily from haraffing flumbers: her unquiet mind had, during the night, prefented her with terrific images and obfcure circumftances, concerning her affection and her future life. She now endeavoured to chafe away the impreffions they had left on her fancy; but from imaginary evils fhe awoke to the consciousness of real ones. RecolVOL. II. lecting

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lecting that she had parted with Valancourt, perhaps for ever, her heart fickened as memory revived. But fhe tried to difmifs the difmal forebodings that crowded on her mind, and to restrain the forrow which the could not fubdue; efforts which diffused. over the fettled melancholy of her countenance an expreffion of tempered refignation, as a thin veil, thrown over the features of beauty, renders them more interefting by a partial concealment. But Madame Montoni obferved nothing in this countenance except its unufual palenefs, which attracted her cenfure. She told her niece, that she had been indulging in fanciful forrows, and begged fhe would have, more regard for decorum, than to let the world fee that he could not renounce an improper attachment; at which Emily's pale cheek became flushed with crimson, but it was the blush of pride, and she made no answer. Soon after, Montoni entered the breakfast room, fpoke little, and seemed impatient to be gone.

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The windows of this room opened upon the garden. As Emily paffed them, the faw the fpot where he had parted with Valancourt on the preceding night: the remembrance preffed heavily on her heart, and fhe turned haftily away from the object that had awakened it.

The baggage being at length adjusted, the travellers entered their carriages, and Emily would have left the chateau without one figh of regret, had it not been fituated in the neighbourhood of Valancourt's refidence.

From a little eminence fhe looked back upon Tholoufe, and the far-feen plains of Gafcony, beyond which the broken fummits of the Pyrenées appeared on the dif tant horizon, lighted up by a morning fun. "Dear pleafant mountains!" faid fhe to herfelf, "how long may it be ere I fee ye again, and how much may happen to make me miferable in the interval! Oh, could I now be certain, that I fhould ever return to ye, and find that Valancourt ftill lived