certain circumstance, did not allow her to coincide with the opinion most of the company seemed to have adopted. Every one being curious to know that circumstance, he was pressed to relate it; upon which the protested that it was no secret, that, every night, at twelve o'clock, such a terrible noise was heard in the chapel of the castle, that one expected it would be turned upside down. The Marquis raised a loud laugh, in which he was joined by the whole company, but particularly by Don Antonio, who, probably recollecting that midnight was already past, proposed to the company to go with him into the chapel. However, the Marchioness dissembled to pay no attention to what he said, and feigned to be offended by the ridicule which her information had been received with; declaring, that she would lay any wager, that none of the gentlemen who were pleased to laugh at her, would fetch a fan she had left in her pew in the afternoon.
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