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then, Monsieur Du Pont, who occasioned me much foolish terror;suffering, that

they took alar, that he

had occasioned her any apprehension, added, 'As I rested on the

wall, opposite to your casement, the consideration of your melancholy

situation and of my own called from me involuntary sounds of

lamentation, which drew you, I fancy, to the casement; I saw there a

person, who of my emotion

at that moment; I wished to speak, but prudence restrained me, till

the distant foot-step of a sentinel compelled me suddenly to quit my

station

'It was so, for I

could only leave uard me; meanwhile I became convinced from some circumstances

related by hiain I

ventured forth, I returned to your case to speak I waved my hand, and you suddenly disappeared;

then it was, that I forgot ain you appeared--you spoke--I heard the well-known accent of your

voice! and, at that ain, had I not heard also the approaching steps of a soldier, when I

instantly quitted the place, though not before the ained so fast upon eh, to save myself