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CHAP. VI.

ceased Clermont, or, as we shall hereafter call him, St. Julian; but he ceased without gratifying the curiosity of Madeline: much of his story, she was convinced, remained untold, and she shuddered as she thought it was concealed merely because it was too dreadful to be known.

"Oh, surely, (she said, within herself) some mysterious circumstances must have attended the fate of my mother, or ere this my father would have mentioned her to me—-