How we cite our quotes: (Volume.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Emily remained at her casement, till the vivid lightning, that now, every instant, revealed the wide horizon and the landscape below, made it no longer safe to do so […]. (3.4.14)
There's a real obsession with dangerous elements of nature going on here. Is it totally healthy? Better than ghost-chasing, we guess.
Quote #8
Emily now had a full view of Udolpho, with its gray walls, towers, and terraces, high over-topping the precipices and the dark woods. (3.6.76)
Usually, we get the opposite view—looking over the walls of Udolpho at the surrounding wilderness. Outside the walls, Em feels absorbed back into nature.
Quote #9
Meanwhile, the Countess, reflecting, with regret, upon the gay parties she had left at Paris, surveyed, with disgust, what she thought the gloomy woods and solitary wilderness of the scene […]. (3.10.11)
Point taken: not everyone's into nature stuff. But enthusiasm for nature is a great way to tell who's going to be a main character. The Countess really gets the short shrift after she pooh-poohs the gloomy woods.