"Then why fear a spirit?" demanded the pilgrim; "why yield to the heated visions of fancy? why listen to the idle tales of superstition ?"

"There is no arguing the point with you," said Vannina, rising to depart "When last absolved, my confessor warned me to preserve faith."

"And you," thought Isidore, as he heard her descend the turret staircase," most scrupulously adhere to his injunction."

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