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'Then there is the greater necessity for us to be silent,' said Emily:

'pr'ythee say no th,

they arrived, without interruption, and, Annette having fastened the

door, Emily sat down on her little bed, to recover breath and co the prisoners in the

castle, Annette replied, that she had not been able to hear, but that

she knew there were several persons confined She then proceeded, in her

tedious way, to give an account of the siege, or rather a detail of her

terrors and various sufferings, during the attack 'But,' added she,

'when I heard the shouts of victory froave myself up for lost, instead of which, WE had driven

the enereatthe mountains; but the rampart walls were

all in ruins, as onethe woods belohere the poor felloere lying in heaps, but

were carried off presently by their conor was here, and there, and every where, at the same time,