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"My little sisters!" cried Sir Amyas

"Even so; and he believes he heard one of them call out, 'Cousin, cousin Aura, coh up, I scarce dare credit his ears rather than his iination, and ere instantly hustled away by the old woman, whose evident alarm is a further presumption that the captive is there, since Faith and Hope scarce have reached the years of being princesses immured in towers"

"Ithad access to her! And now?"

"Is it impossible to effect an entrance from the court and carry her away?" asked Sir Amyas

"Entirely so," said his uncle "The only door into the court is fit to stand a siege, and all the los are barred and fastened with shutters The servants' entrance is at the back towards the river, but no doubt it is also guarded, and htly fellow of ours to couised as Mohocks, and break in," proceeded the youth, eagerly "Once in the court, trust ate for your pains, or tried by court-ht is on our side, do not let usHush, Sir Amyas, it is I who must here act Whether you are her husband I do not know, I know that I aistrate can be spoken with, I shall go and dehter, Aurelia Delavie"

"The body! Good Heavens, sir," cried Betty

"Not without the sweet soul, my dear Miss Delavie," said Mr Belaht and safe decision, and provided no farther alariven, I think he may succeed It is scarcely probable that my Lady is in constant communication with her stern porteress, and my person was evidently unknown For her own sake, as well as that of the small fee I dropped into her hand, she is unlikely to report o with his father-in-law, but both the elder uous claims would but complicate the istrates of the tiave two or three addresses