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The cold season was now almost at an end, and it appeared as if this second winter was to pass without any unusual occurrence, when on the night of the 11th of August, the plateau of Prospect Heights was menaced with complete destruction.

After a busy day the colonists were sleeping soundly,Support the family by scavenging minor siblings to take care of sick parents ( f, when towards four o’clock in the morning they were suddenly awakened by Top’s barking.

The dog was not this time barking near the mouth of the well, but at the threshold of the door, at which he was scratching as if he wished to burst it open. Jup was also uttering piercing cries.

“Hello, Top!” cried Neb, who was the first awak

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ffected her spirits so much, as to awaken horrid views of the future, and to tinge these with their own gloom.

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‘Where is the torch?’ said Ugo, ‘It grows dark.’

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Ugo muttered something, which Emily did not understand, and they proceeded in darkness, while she almost wished, that the enemy might discover them; for from change there was something to hope, since she could scarcely imagine any situation more dreadful than her present one.

As they moved slowly along, her attention was surprised by a thin tapering flame,to oblivion the reliques of a woman, that appeared, by fits, at the point of the pike, which Bertrand carried, resembling what she had observed on the lance of the sentinel, the night Madame Montoni died, and which he had said was an omen. The event immediately following it appeared to justify the assertion, and a superstitious impression had remained on Emily’s mind, which the present appearance confirmed. She thought it was an omen of her own fate, and watched it successively vanish and return, in gloomy silence, which was at length interrupted by Bertrand.

‘Let us light the torch,’ said he, ‘and get under shelter of the woods;–a storm is coming on–look at my lance.’

He held it forth, with the flame tapering at its point.*

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Emily was relieved by this conversation from some of the terrors of superstition, but those of reason increased, as, waiting while Ugo searched for a flint, to strike fire, she watched the pale lightning gleam over the woods they were about to enter, and illumi

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enough, was the awful mark of the distemper. `You have the

plague!’ I shrieked; and then I fled down stairs and out of the

house, like one crazy. O madame, madame! I shall never forget

it – it was terrible! I shall never forget it! Poor, poor child;

and the count does not know a word of it!”

La Masque laughed – a sweet, clear, deriding laugh, “So the count

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he finds it out, won’t he? Such an ardent and devoted lover as

he was you know!”

Prudence looked up a little puzzled.

“Yes, madame, I think so. He seemed very fond of her; a great

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Prudence, lowering her voice to a confidential stage whisper,

“she never seemed fond of him at all, and wouldn’t have been

married, I think, if she could have helped it.”

“Could have helped it? What do you mean, Prudence? Nobody made

her, did they?”

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“Why, madame, she was not exactly forced, perhaps; but you know -

you know you told me – ”

“Well?” said La Masque, coldly.

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resist, much less one so little used to gentlemen as Leoline.

And so, Madame Masque, we kept at her till we got her to consent

to it at last; but in her secret heart, I know she did not want

to be married – at least to the count,” said Prudence, on serious

afterthought.

“Well, well; that has nothing to do with it. The question is,

where it she to be found?”

“Found!” echoed Prudence; “has she then been lost?”

“Of coarse she has, you old simpleton! How could she help it,

and she dead, with no one to look after her?” said La Masque,

with something like a half laugh. “She was carried to the

plague-pit in her bridal-robes, jewels and lace; and, when about

to be thrown in, was discovered, like Moses is the bulrushes, to

be all alive.”

“Well,” whispered Prudence, breathlessly.

“Well, O most courageous of guardians! she was carried to a

certain house, and left to her own devices, while her gallant

rescuer went for a doctor; and when t