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CHAP. V.

"The lonely mountains o'er,And the resounding shore,A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament!From haunted spring, and dale,Edg'd with poplar pale,The parting genius is with sighing sent;With flower-inwoven tresses tornThe nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thicket mourn.Milton.

While the Marchesa and the Monk were thus meditating conspiracies against Ellena, she was still in the Ursaline convent on the lake of Celano. In this obscure sanctuary, indisposition, the consequence of the long and severe anxiety she had suffered, compelled her to remain. A fever was on her spirits, and an universal lassitude prevailed over her frame; which became the more effectual, from her very solicitude to conquer it. Every approach-ing

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