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Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, / Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres, / Lingering, and sitting, by a new-made grave. / - Milton
On the following day, Montoni sent a second excuse to Emily, who was surprised at the circumstance. "This is very strange! " said she to herself. "His conscience tells him the purport of my visit, and he defers it, to avoid an explanation. " She now almost resolved to throw herself in his way, but terror checked the intention, and this day passed, as the preceding one, with Emily, except that a degree of awful expectation, concerning the approaching night, now somewhat disturbed the dreadful calmness that had pervaded her mind.