ABSTRACT
They followed the man through a long gloomy passage into a parlour tolerably well furnished; but, as Louisa thought, very, di erent from what might be expected in a house of the Countess of Delville’s. A certain air of desolation seemed to reign around, and as she cast her eyes into the garden to which the room she was now in looked, she observed/ several persons walking separately, whose countenances, she fancied, were in unison with the scene around. She felt a chilling sensation of horror creep through her veins; her spirits, lately so exhilarated, were suddenly depressed, and her whole frame shook with the apprehension of approaching evil.
