...could leave «l£ chamber, she dropped senseless on the noor. - When she recovered her recollection,the remembrance of what she had seen had nearly deprived...Horror occupied her mind, and excluded, for a time, art sense of past and dread of future misfortune : she seated herself near the casement, because from...

...and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall ; perceiving that \vdat it had concealed was no picture ;— and before she could...arrived there, wanted courage to remain alone — Horror occnpicd her mind, and excluded, for a time, all sense of past and dread of future misfortune : she...

...and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil ; but ipstantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could...on the floor. When she recovered her recollection, . . . horror occupied her mind.' Countless mysteries coagulate around this veil, and the reader is...

...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor." She nearly faints a second time on recovering consciousness, then she flies to her own room filled...

...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall, perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture ; and before she could...leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor.' Long afterwards the object is described and explained as having been a wax figure imitating (and taken...

...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall, perceiving that what it concealed was no picture, and before she could leave...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor.' There is consummate skill in these simple lines, and the horror suggested by the touch, it was no picture,...

...with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it contained was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor. Here we must leave the poor Emily ; and if it seems cruel to furnish no explanation of what she saw,...

...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture; and before she could leave the chamber dropped senseless upon the floor." What was behind the veil? In a famous conversation between Catharine...

...and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall — perceiving that, what it had concealed was no picture and, before she could...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor." • In time Emily recovers, but the horror of the Black Veil preys on her mind until, near the close...

...in The Mysteries of Udolpho lifts the curtain from what she believes to be a picture —but "What it concealed was no picture, and, before she could leave the chamber, she dropped senseless to the floor." Not until near the end of the book is the reader enlightened as to what she saw. This...