The facade between Madame Cheron and her suitor, the villain Montoni, dissolves at the climax, and the main character is free to marry Vallancourt.
In this novel, the revealing of a portrait with a black curtain over it leads to a digression about the disappearance of Lady Laurentini after she'd walked into the woods. The protagonist is frightened when St. Elmo's Fire glows on a halberd of a soldier bought out by a condottiero. Near the beginning, the protagonist's mother dies followed by her father, and the latter asks her to return home to La Vallee to burn his papers. Annette and her lover Ludovico assist the main character at the title place. The facade between Madame Cheron and her suitor, the villain Montoni, dissolves at the climax, and the main character is free to marry Vallancourt. FTP, name this novel about Emily St. Aubert and her investigation of the title castle, a work by Ann Radcliffe.
In this novel, the revealing of a portrait with a black curtain over it leads to a digression about the disappearance of Lady Laurentini after she'd walked into the woods.
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