soon after this conversation, madame montoni sunk into a dose, and continued slumbering, till evening, when she seemed better than she had been since her removal from the turret.emily never left her, for a moment, till long after midnight, and even then would not have quitted the room, had not her aunt entreated, that she would retire to rest.she then obeyed, the more willingly, because her patient appeared somewhat recruited by sleep; and, giving annette the same injunction, as on the preceding night, she withdrew to her own apartment.but her spirits were wakeful and agitated, and, finding it impossible to sleep, she determined to watch, once more, for the mysterious appearance, that had so much interested and alarmed her.
it was now the second watch of the night, and about the time when the figure had before appeared.emily heard the passing steps of the sentinels, on the rampart, as they changed guard; and, when all was again silent, she took her station at the casement, leaving her lamp in a remote part of the chamber, that she might escape notice from without.the moon gave a faint and uncertain light, for heavy vapours surrounded it, and, often rolling over the disk, left the scene below in total darkness.it was in one of these moments of obscurity, that she observed a small and lambent flame, moving at some distance on the terrace.while she gazed, it disappeared, and, the moon again emerging from the lurid and heavy thunder clouds, she turned her attention to the heavens, where the vivid lightnings darted from cloud to cloud, and flashed silently on the woods below.