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CHAPTER XI
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Near a fortnight had elapsed without producing any appearance of hostility1 from the marquis, when one night, long after the hour of repose2, Julia was awakened3 by the bell of the monastery4. She knew it was not the hour customary for prayer, and she listened to the sounds, which rolled through the deep silence of the fabric5, with strong surprise and terror. Presently she heard the doors of several cells creak on their hinges, and the sound of quick footsteps in the passages—and through the crevices6 of her door she distinguished7 passing lights. The whispering noise of steps increased, and every person of the monastery seemed to have awakened. Her terror heightened; it occurred to her that the marquis had surrounded the abbey with his people, in the design of forcing her from her retreat; and she arose in haste, with an intention of going to the chamber8 of Madame de Menon, when she heard a gentle tap at the door. Her enquiry of who was there, was answered in the voice of madame, and her fears were quickly dissipated, for she learned the bell was a summons to attend a dying nun9, who was going to the high altar, there to receive extreme unction.
She quitted the chamber with madame. In her way to the church, the gleam of tapers11 on the walls, and the glimpse which her eye often caught of the friars in their long black habits, descending13 silently through the narrow
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countenance
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apprehensions
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astonishment
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turret
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clattering
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tumult
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utterly
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concealment
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caverns
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penetration
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v.干预,玩弄,贿赂,窜改,削弱,损害 | |
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resentment
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amazement
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pretence
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