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At length, he inforain visited the Chevalier, who

had directed hiuard of the prison, from whom he

had already received some instances of kindness, and who had pro into the castle for half an hour, on the ensuing night,

when Montoni and his coed at their carousals

'This was kind, to be sure,' added Ludovico: 'but Sebastian knows he

runs no risque in letting the Chevalier out, for, if he can get beyond

the bars and iron doors of the castle, he nora, to go to you i you would allow hiht, if it was only for a

er live under the sa you; the hour, he said, he could not mention, for it nora); and the place he desired

you would appoint, as knohich was best for your own safety'

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Valancourt, that it was soive any answer to

Ludovico, or consider of the place of ; when she did, she saw

none, that promised so much security, as the corridor, near her own

apart, by the apprehension of

uests, on their way to their rooms; and she

dismissed the scruples, which delicacy opposed, now that a serious

danger was to be avoided by encountering them It was settled,