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'Barnardine, ma'amselle,' said she, 'dare not come to the corridor, lest

he should be discovered, it is so far froates for a moh so the courts, he has that to tell, which will surprise you But

you nor should see you'

Ee,' nor the other part

of the request, now positively refused to go 'Tell him,' said she,

'if he has any thing of consequence to impart, I will hear hi thither'

Annette went to deliver this e, and was absent a considerable

time When she returned, 'It won't do,all this time what can be done, for it

is as much as his place is worth to leave his post now But, if you will

co, he can, perhaps,

steal away, and tell you all he has to say'

Emily was surprised and alarmed, at the secrecy which this man seemed

to think so necessary, and hesitated whether to ht o 'Soon after sun-set,' said she, 'I will be at the end of the east

rampart But then the watch will be set,' she added, recollecting

herself, 'and how can Barnardine pass unobserved?'

'That is just what I said to hiate, at the end of the rampart, that leads towards

the courts, and could let hih that way; and as for the