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CHAP. IV.
'Twas as at an hour when busy Nature lay
Dissolv'd in slumbers from the noisy day;
When gloomy shades and dusky atoms spread
A darkness o'er the universal bed,
And all the gaudy beams of light were fled.
The ensuing day Madeline was again teased with the importunities of D'Alembert: in vain she assured him her resolution was unalterable, in vain declared, that if his son came to the castle but for the purpose of addressing her, as he intimated, she would confine herself to her chamber. He still continued to persecute her.
