The Mysteries of Udolpho

When you are gone, I shall think of

many things I would have said to you.' 'And I of many--many!' said

Valancourt; 'I never left you yet, that I did not immediately remember

some question, or some entreaty, or some circumstance, concerning my

love, that I earnestly wished to mention, and feel wretched because I

could not. O Emily! this countenance, on which I now gaze--will, in a

moment, be gone from my eyes, and not all the efforts of fancy will be

able to recall it with exactness. O! what an infinite difference between

this moment and the next! NOW, I am in your presence, can behold you!

THEN, all will be a dreary blank--and I shall be a wanderer, exiled from

my only home!' Valancourt again pressed her to his heart, and held her there in

silence, weeping

. Tears once again calmed her oppressed mind. They again

bade each other farewell, lingered a moment, and then parted. Valancourt

seemed to force himself from the spot; he passed hastily up the avenue,

and Emily, as she moved slowly towards the chateau, heard his distant

steps. She listened to the sounds, as they sunk fainter and fainter,

till the melancholy stillness of night alone remained; and then

hurried to her chamber, to seek repose, which, alas! was fled from her

wretchedness.