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'By St Peter! so they are,' said the soldier, and again ran off, while

Ludovico, once e,

where E discourse had

occasioned; but, on his telling theates, without waiting another instant, yet not before he

had seized two horses, that had strayed fro the grass, which greeen the pavement

of the first They passed, without interruption, the dreadful gates, and took the road

that led down a the woods, Emily, Monsieur Du Pont and Annette on

foot, and Ludovico, asreached them, they stopped, while Emily and Annette were placed

on horseback with their two protectors, when, Ludovico leading the way,

they set off as fast as the broken road, and the feeble light, which a

rising e, would permit

Emily was so much astonished by this sudden departure, that she scarcely

dared to believe herself awake; and she yet much doubted whether this

adventure would terminate in escape,--a doubt, which had too much

probability to justify it; for, before they quitted the woods, they

heard shouts in the wind, and, on e