The Mysteries of Udolpho
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An evening walk in Gascony: your father carries a book, you carry the lute, and the path drops through chestnuts to the fishing house he kept when Paris wanted his ambition. You play Emily St Aubert. Your last chord travels upstream, and something across the Garonne answers it — a human voice, from a bank with no boat and no light. A pale shape passes behind a cypress. Then the singer begins an air your father knows and has never taught you.
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