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'Aye, and for thattoo,' replied the soldier, 'but,

since the siege, they have done nothing but make merry: and if I was

they, I would settle accounts with , the

same way'

They had now crossed the second court, and reached the hall door, when

the soldier, bidding theht, hastened back to his post; and,

while they waited for ad Montoni, and retire unnoticed to her former apartment, for she

shrunk fro either him, or any of his party,

at this hour

The uproar within the castle was now so loud, that, though

Ugo knocked repeatedly at the hall door, he was not heard by any of

the servants, a circumstance, which increased Emily's alarm, while it

allowed her ti unobserved; for,

though she reat stair-case unseen, it was

iht, the

difficulty of procuring which, and the danger of wandering about the

castle, without one, immediately struck her Bertrand had only a torch,

and she knew, that the servants never brought a taper to the door, for