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Emily now listened, with very anxious attention, to the narrative of Du

Pont, who proceeded:

'In granting this indulgence, he knew, that he had nothing to apprehend

froilantly

guarded, and the nearest terrace of which rose over a perpendicular

rock; he shewed me also,' continued Du Pont, 'a door concealed in

the cedar wainscot of the apartment where I was confined, which he

instructed e, formed

within the thickness of the wall, that extended far along the castle,

finally opened in an obscure corner of the eastern rampart I have since

been infores of the saious walls of that edifice, and which were,

undoubtedly, contrived for the purpose of facilitating escapes in tiht, I often stole to the

terrace, where I walked with the utmost caution, lest my steps should

betray me to the sentinels on duty in distant parts; for this end of it,

being guarded by high buildings, was not watched by soldiers In one of

these ht in a casement that overlooked the

rampart, and which, I observed, was immediately over ht be in that apart you, I placed ure that had formerly appeared on the terrace,

and which had occasioned her so much anxiety, exclaimed, 'It was you