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Now it was not Signor Montoni's always, nor his father's; no; but, by some law or other, it was to come to the Signor, if the lady died unmarried. 'What lady? said Emily.
The party, for some time, appeared inattentive to my voice; but, at length, were so much alarmed, that they quitted the apartment; and, having heard Montoni order his servants to search it, I returned to my prison, which was very distant from this part of the passage. 'I remember perfectly to have heard of the conversation you mention, said Emily; 'it spread a general alarm among Montoni's people, and I will own I was weak enough to partake of it.
Spare yourself the dreadful consequences of an unjust revenge, and the remorse of having prolonged to me these moments of suffering. 'Is it for mine, or for Montoni's safety, that you are thus alarmed? said Morano, coldly, and turning towards her with a look of acrimony. 'For both, replied Emily, in a trembling voice. 'Unjust revenge! cried the Count, resuming the abrupt tones of passion.
To the discovery, which had just been forced upon her, of Montoni's unworthiness, she had now to add, that of the cruel vanity, for the gratification of which her aunt was about to sacrifice her; of the effrontery and cunning, with which, at the time that she meditated the sacrifice, she boasted of her tenderness, or insulted her victim; and of the venomous envy, which, as it did not scruple to attack her father's character, could scarcely be expected to withhold from her own.
Emily was now so much agitated by the near prospect of meeting Valancourt, that it was some time, before she could give any answer to Ludovico, or consider of the place of meeting; when she did, she saw none, that promised so much security, as the corridor, near her own apartment, which she was checked from leaving, by the apprehension of meeting any of Montoni's guests, on their way to their rooms; and she dismissed the scruples, which delicacy opposed, now that a serious danger was to be avoided by encountering them.
But, I know not how it is your conversation is so fascinating that it can charm even memory, I think, or I should certainly have delivered my friend's apology before. 'The apology, sir, would have been more satisfactory from himself, said Madame Cheron, whose vanity was more mortified by Montoni's neglect, than flattered by Cavigni's compliment.
And so I did hold my tongue, ma'amselle, and came away to tell you directly. Emily enquired who the cavalier was, that accompanied the Count, and how Montoni received them; but Annette could not inform her. 'Ludovico, she added, 'had just been to call Signor Montoni's valet, that he might tell him they were arrived, when I met him.
Her endeavours to explain his motives for this circumstance were almost as ineffectual as those to sooth the distress of her aunt, whose innocence she could not doubt; but she, at length, accounted for Montoni's readiness to suspect his wife by his own consciousness of cruelty towards her, and for the sudden violence of his present conduct against both, before even his suspicions could be completely formed, by his general eagerness to effect suddenly whatever he was led to desire and his carelessness of justice, or humanity, in accomplishing it.
She curtsied to Montoni, and was retiring; 'But you do not know the way to your chamber, said her aunt. Montoni called the servant, who waited in the ante-room, and bade him send Madame Montoni's woman, with whom, in a few minutes, Emily withdrew. 'Do you know which is my room? said she to Annette, as they crossed the hall.
She re-considered Montoni's manner and words, when he had spoken of his wife, and they served only to confirm her most terrible suspicions. Tears refused any longer to relieve her distress, and she had sat for a considerable time absorbed in thought, when a knocking at the chamber door aroused her, on opening which she found old Carlo.
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