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MELMOTH THE WANDERER: A TALE.

MELMOTH

BY THE AUTHOR OF “BERTRAM,” &c.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

EDINBURGH:

1820.

MELMOTH.

CHAPTER XII.

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“I ran on till I had no longer breath or strength, (without perceiving that I was in a dark passage), till I was stopt by a door. In falling against it, I burst it open, and found myself in a low dark room. When I raised myself, for I had fallen on my hands and knees, I looked round, and saw something so singular, as to suspend even my personal anxiety and terror for a moment.

“I ran

“The room was very small; and I could perceive by the rents, that I had not only broken open a door, but a large curtain which hung before it, whose ample folds still 

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