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'Is he subject to fits?' said Enora,' replied Roberto; 'but if I had not, what I saas

enough to have frightened the Pope hi 'I cannot tell what it was, lady, or what I saw, or how it vanished,'

replied the soldier, who seemed to shudder at the recollection

'Was it the person, whom you followed down the rampart, that has

occasioned you this alar to conceal her own

'Person!' exclaimed the man,--'it was the devil, and this is not the

first time I have seen him!' 'Nor will it be the last,' observed one of his co 'No, no, I warrant not,' said another 'Well,' rejoined Roberto, 'you may be as merry now, as you please; you

was none so jocose the other night, Sebastian, when you was on watch

with Launcelot' 'Launcelot need not talk of that,' replied Sebastian, 'let hiive the WORD, till the one, If the man had not come so silently upon us, I would have seized

him, and soon made him tell who he was' 'What man?' enquired Emily

'It was no man, lady,' said Launcelot, who stood by, 'but the devil

himself, as my comrade says What et within the walls at ht just as well

pretend toall the Senators, when they

are counselling; and I warrant I should have ain alive, than any fellow, that we should catch within the gates

after dark So I think I have proved plainly enough, that this can be

nobody that lives out of the castle; and noill prove, that it can

be nobody that lives in the castle--for, if he did--why should he be