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After some deliberation, she determined that Montoni should not be informed of this event till the morning, for she considered, that he might, perhaps, utter some inhuman expressions, such as in the present temper of her spirits she could not bear.
Here, while she looked out for some hope to support her fainting spirits, which had been so long harassed and oppressed, that, if she had not now struggled much against misfortune, they would have left her, perhaps, for ever, she endeavoured to believe, that Montoni did really intend to permit her return to France as soon as he had secured her property, and that he would, in the mean time, protect her from insult; but her chief hope rested with Ludovico, who, she doubted not, would be zealous in her cause, though he seemed almost to despair of success in it.
'I don't know what is the reason, ma'amselle, replied Annette, 'nor any thing about the picture, only I have heard there is something very dreadful belonging to it and that it has been covered up in black EVER SINCE and that nobody has looked at it for a great many years and it somehow has to do with the owner of this castle before Signor Montoni came to the possession of it and'
'I long for the declarations of a lover, not the reasonings of a philosopher, cried Julia passionately. 'Thou man of ice, nothing can melt you? 'Remember your duty to your husband, said Montoni, gravely, as he arose to depart. 'I will see you to-morrow evening adieu. He left her to her reflections.
Preferring the solitude of her room to the company of the persons below stairs, Emily dined above, and Maddelina was suffered to attend her, from whose simple conversation she learned, that the peasant and his wife were old inhabitants of this cottage, which had been purchased for them by Montoni, in reward of some service, rendered him, many years before, by Marco, to whom Carlo, the steward at the castle, was nearly related.
After taking refreshment, she was shewn by the peasant's wife to her little bed-chamber, where she asked some questions concerning Montoni, to which the woman, whose name was Dorina, gave reserved answers, pretending ignorance of his excellenza's intention in sending Emily hither, but acknowledging that her husband had been apprized of the circumstance.
Aid me, ye powers of hell, in this my scheme make my heart bold, my hand firm, my brain calm; for the deed is full of horror, and the thought of it chills my blood; I shudder and turn sick and dizzy yet, for thy sake, Montoni, I WILL DO 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.
The late resolution of Emily to resign her estates to Montoni, now gave way to new considerations; the possibility, that Valancourt was near her, revived her fortitude, and she determined to brave the threatened vengeance, at least, till she could be assured whether he was really in the castle.
'Come, come, said Montoni, 'other business brought me here. I must be trifled with no longer. I have immediate occasion for what I demand those estates must be given up, without further contention; or I may find a way 'They never shall be given up, interrupted Madame Montoni: 'they never shall enable you to carry on your wild schemes; but what are these? I will know.
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