The Mysteries of Udolpho; A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that finite feemed impreiTed on Emily's mind for ever. She leaned from the window, and faw him on a knoll of the broken, bank, leaning againft the high trees that waved over him, and purfuing the carriage with his eyes. He waved his hand, and fhe continued to gaze till diftance confufed his figure, and at length another turn of the road entirely feparated him from her fight. Having ftopped to take up Signor Ca- vigni at a chateau on the road, the travellers, of whom Emily was difrefpeftfully feated with Madame Montoni's woman in a fecond carnage, purfued their way over the plains of Languedoc. The prefence of this fervant reftrained Emily from reading Valancourt's letter, for (he did not choofe to expofe the emotions it might oc- cafion to the obfervation of any perfon. Yet fuch was her wifh to read this his laft communication, that her trembling hand was every moment on the point of breaking Ae feal. B 3 At At length they reached the village. v, here they ftayed only to change horfes, without alighting, and it was not till they ftopped to dine, that Emily had an opportunity of reading the letter. Though fhc had never doubted the fincerity of Valan- court's affeftion, the frelh aflurances (he now received of it revived her fpirits; fhc wept over his letter in tendernefs, laid it by to be referred to when they fhould be particularly depreflfed, and then thought of him with much lefs anguilh than fhe had done fmce they parted. Among fome other re- quefts, which were interefting to her, be caufe expreffive of his tendernefs, and be- caufe a compliance with them feemed to annihilate for a while the pain of abfence, he entreated fhe would always think of him at fun-fet. cf You will then meet me in thought/' faid he; " I fhall conftantly watch the fun-fet, and I fhall be happy ...