They've inherited that spooky chateau that Emily and her dad came across during their travels, otherwise known as the estate of the Marquis de Villerois. One day when they're all gazing out at the Mediterranean, they witness a shipwreck. That's right, it's our friends from Udolpho. Turns out that the Count and Du Pont are old buddies, so the whole crew gets an invitation to stay at the chateau for a while.
Blanche and Emily cozy up to each other and take turns wheedling the old maid, Dorothee, to tell them stories about the previous owner. Dorothee stays mum, but can't help mentioning that Emily looks exactly like the late Marchioness.
Valancourt comes back into the picture, but he's a ruined man. The Count convinces Emily that she needs to break up with the loser, stat. Emily agrees, but she's devastated. Good thing Dorothee's got a great distraction: she finally agrees to tell Emily about her former mistress, who died under suspicious circumstances. Dorothee even takes Emily to the room where the Marchioness died, where they see a human apparition floating above the bed. They get the heck out of Dodge.
Since everyone's up in arms about the supposed ghost, Ludovico volunteers to spend the night in the haunted room. He vanishes into thin air overnight, which does nothing to quell the rumors. Meanwhile, Emily gets a letter telling her about Montoni's death.
Hey, at least she'll get her estates back. Relieved, she takes a break to go see her nun friends at the convent. There, she gets the lowdown on one particular nun named Agnes who can't stop ranting and moaning. Long story short, her dad married her off to one man when she was in love with another and she cheated on the guy. Her husband would have avenged himself against Agnes, but daddy whisked her off to the convent without his knowing.
She's still brokenhearted about Valancourt, when Annette fills her in on a troubling incident: the gardener shot at some supposed robber who may or may not be dead. Emily immediately figures out it's Valancourt, which sends her into hysterics. She's especially emotional when her old servant, Theresa, tells her Valancourt has been providing for her all this time.
Just when Emily and Theresa are crying over poor dead Valancourt, in he walks like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral. Emily tries to hide her feelings, but Valancourt figures out she still has the hots for him. Meanwhile, the Count de Villeforte and the Lady Blanche are returning from a nice little vacation at their friend's chateau, where Blanche has gotten herself engaged to Monsieur St. When they get lost in the woods and stumble across a fortress, they prevail on the suspicious-looking residents to put them up for the night.
Blanche smells something rotten when she hears the residents scheming to murder them all for a revenge plot, but she faints before she's any use. That's right, he somehow made his way from the haunted chamber to the bandit's fortress. After returning safely back to the Chateau-le-Blanc, the Count and his daughter invite Emily back.
Emily goes, not only to see her buddies but to give Ludovico the third degree about where he went. Turns out, Ludovico was ambushed by four guys who came from a secret entryway into the supposedly "haunted" chamber.
And get this: the guys who kidnapped Ludovico were pirates. Ahoy, matey! Ludovico tells Emily that the pirates had kept their treasure in the castle's vaults for years. Anyway, after taking poor Ludovico through some passages under the castle, the pirates kept him as a prisoner at the very fortress the Count and Blanche stumbled across on their journey.
And it's a good thing Ludovico was there when they did, 'cause he was able to prevent the pirates from murdering them in their sleep. Everyone's happy to have Ludovico back, but Emily's got plenty more trouble on her hands. Remember Sister Agnes, the random nun who was kind of losing her grip on reality? She's dying, and she just has to speak to Emily before she bites the bullet. Here comes a bombshell: Agnes is really Signora Laurentini, the former owner of Udolpho supposedly killed by Montoni.
Agnes-turned-Laurentini confesses to Emily that she poisoned the late Marchioness of Chateau-le-Blanc because she was in love with her husband, the Marquis de Villerois. Even though the Marquis was in love with Laurentini and totally down with offing his wife, he decided that he wasn't that into the murdering type, after all. Emily's kinda confused why Laurentini is telling her all this until she drops bombshell 2: Emily's dad was actually the late Marchioness's brother, making Emily the lady's niece and sole surviving heir.
To sweeten the deal, Laurentini gives Emily all of her property before she dies. Emily's a richy-rich now. Oh yeah, and remember how we never heard what was beneath that black veil? It was just a melted wax figure that looked like a corpse. Totally normal, and kind of a letdown. So there's one more loose string to tie up, and you guessed right… it's Valancourt.
Du Pont who's still totally in love with Emily, BTW is hanging out with his buddy Monsieur Bonnac, who off-handedly mentions that Valancourt bailed him out of debt and prison. Oh, so that's where all his money went! The Count figures out that Valancourt is actually a pretty decent guy, so he calls him to Chateau-le-Blanc to make nice with Emily. A dramatic confession of eternal love is heading your way, stat.
There's only one thing left to happen: a double wedding featuring Blanche and St. Foix and Emily and Valancourt. And since Emily is super-rich and super-generous, she gives Udolpho to Bonnac and his wife.
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Log in now. Loading Comments Instead, Emily and her father take refuge in the home of a local peasant, and Monsieur St. Aubert dies a few days later. At his request, he is buried in the nearby convent of St. Grief-stricken, Emily returns to La Vallee; Valancourt begins to woo her, but Emily's new guardian Madame Cheron her aunt is opposed to the match and takes Emily to her estate at Thoulouse.
Two Italian noblemen, Signor Montoni and Signor Cavigni , become frequent visitors at Madame Cheron's home; she also changes her opinion on Valancourt, and he and Emily become engaged for a brief period. However, Madame Cheron and Signor Montoni abruptly get married, and decide that Emily is going to accompany them to Italy and must end her engagement. Once she is in Venice, Montoni starts trying to trap Emily into a marriage with another Italian nobleman, Count Morano.
However, plans abruptly change again, and Emily and Madame Montoni formerly Madame Cheron are whisked off to the remote castle of Udolpho in the Apennine mountains. Udolpho is an eerie place. Emily feels very isolated, with only her servant Annette for company. The history of the castle is tied up with a mysterious woman named Signora Laurentini; she owned the castle prior to Montoni, and Montoni tried to court her, but she was in love with someone else.
One day the Signora mysteriously vanished, and Montoni then inherited the castle. Montoni's belief is that the Signora killed herself, but Emily is suspicious that Montoni might have killed her in order to obtain the castle. The ominous atmosphere is heightened due to Emily uncovering some sort of horrible object hidden under a black veil. Emily is also in more practical forms of danger: Morano tries to abduct her from the castle, Montoni is acting as a local warlord and getting involved in military skirmishes, and the relationship between Montoni and Emily's aunt is becoming more strained.
Amidst a violent confrontation, Madame Montoni is imprisoned in a remote part of the castle and Emily fears her aunt has been murdered. Madame Montoni eventually dies due to her imprisonment, and leaves her property to Emily. Emily is now unprotected in the castle, and subject to intense pressure to sign over her various French properties her paternal estate and her inheritance from her aunt to Montoni. Unexpectedly, a mysterious prisoner in the castle helps Emily, as well as Annette and Annette's lover, Ludovico, to escape from the castle and flee back to France.
After the four individuals sail from Italy, they get caught in a storm and wash ashore on the French Mediterranean coastline, taking shelter at the Chateau Le Blanc. The chateau belongs to the Count and Countess de Villefort, as well as their children Henri and Blanche; the Count de Villefort inherited it from the Marquis de Villeroi , who had abandoned the chateau years before.
It is the same chateau that Emily had passed by when her father was ill, and her father had in fact requested to be buried next to the Marchioness de Villeroi , the former mistress of the chateau.
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