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where she surveyed the spacious and solitary area, with a kind of calloos, and the hollow and io and the soldier conversed together, assisted to

increase theon to the

second court, a distant sound broke feebly on the silence, and gradually

swelling louder, as they advanced, Ehter, but they were to her far other than sounds of joy 'Why,

you have got so you, HERE,' said Bertrand, 'if one

o has taken a larger

share of that than of fighting, I'll be sworn Who is carousing at this

late hour?'

'His excellenza and the Signors,' replied the soldier: 'it is a sign you

are a stranger at the castle, or you would not need to ask the question

They are brave spirits, that do without sleep--they generally pass the

night in good cheer; would that ho keep the watch, had a little of

it! It is cold work, pacing the raood liquor to warht to ware!' replied the soldier sharply, with ato the subject of

the carousal 'This is a new custonors used to sit up counselling'