Every thing, however, remained still; she heard only the solitary step of a sentinel, and the lulling murmur of the woods below, and she again leaned from the casement, and again looked, as if for intelligence, to the planet, which was now risen high above the towers.
Emily continued to listen, but no music came.

'Those were surely no mortal sounds!' said she, recollecting their entrancing melody.

'No inhabitant of this castle could utter such; and, where is the feeling, that could modulate such exquisite expression?
We all know, that it has been affirmed celestial sounds have sometimes been heard on earth.
Father Pierre and Father Antoine declared, that they had sometimes heard them in the stillness of night, when they alone were waking to offer their orisons to heaven.

Nay, my dear father himself, once said, that, soon after my mother's death, as he lay watchful in grief, sounds of uncommon sweetness called him from his bed; and, on opening his window, he heard lofty music pass along the midnight air.

It soothed him, he said; he looked up with confidence to heaven, and resigned her to his God.' Emily paused to weep at this recollection.