Yet, Emily, consider well before you resolve to commit yourself to him.

O! I must not trust myself to speak--or I shall renounce all the motives, which so lately influenced me to resign the hope of your becoming mine immediately.' Valancourt walked upon the terrace with hurried steps, while Emily remained leaning on the balustrade in deep thought.

The information she had just received excited, perhaps, more alarm than it could justify, and raised once more the conflict of contrasted interests.

She had never liked Montoni.

The fire and keenness of his eye, its proud exultation, its bold fierceness, its sullen watchfulness, as occasion, and even slight occasion, had called forth the latent soul, she had often observed with emotion; while from the usual expression of his countenance she had always shrunk.