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The Mysteries of Udolpho

CHAPTER VI
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Let me see you smile.

Who touches that guitar so tastefully?
are there two instruments, or is it an echo I hear ?' 'It is an echo, monsieur, I fancy.

That guitar is often heard at night, when all is still, but nobody knows who touches it, and it is sometimes accompanied by a voice so sweet, and so sad, one would almost think the woods were haunted.' 'They certainly are haunted,' said St.Aubert with a smile, 'but I believe it is by mortals.' 'I have sometimes heard it at midnight, when I could not sleep,' rejoined La Voisin, not seeming to notice this remark, 'almost under my window, and I never heard any music like it.

It has often made me think of my poor wife till I cried.

I have sometimes got up to the window to look if I could see anybody, but as soon as I opened the casement all was hushed, and nobody to be seen; and I have listened, and listened till I have been so timorous, that even the trembling of the leaves in the breeze has made me start.


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