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CHAP. III.

had nearly reached the castle, when Clermont, recollecting some business he had to settle with a cottager who lived at the opposite side of the river, or rather brook, for it scarcely deserved a better appellation, desired Madeline to stop where she was, and, promising to return in a few minutes, crossed over to him.

A little above the spot on which her father left her, hid from it by intervening