![]() ![]() ‘No, ma’amselle, nor fighting, but almost as good, for I believe there was not one of the Signors sober and what is more, not one of those fine ladies sober, either. ‘What, were they disputing, then?’ said Emily. But you know, I dare say, ma’am, what a hurly-burly the castle was in, last night you must have heard some of the uproar.’ ‘Holy Saints!’ exclaimed Annette, ‘how can I help it! If he will lock the door, ma’amselle, and take away the key, how am I to get out, unless I jump through the window? But that I should not mind so much, if the casements here were not all so high one can hardly scramble up to them on the inside, and one should break one’s neck, I suppose, going down on the outside. ‘Locked you up!’ said Emily, with displeasure, ‘Why do you permit Ludovico to lock you up?’ It was not my fault, indeed, ma’amselle, for I could not get out. ‘Aye, I said so, I told him so but it would not do. ‘I was alarmed both on your account and on my own,’ replied Emily-’What detained you?’ ‘Here were fine doings in the castle, last night, ma’amselle,’ said she, as soon as she entered the room,-’fine doings, indeed! Was you not frightened, ma’amselle, at not seeing me?’ In the morning, Emily was relieved from her fears for Annette, who came at an early hour. In this close dungeon of innumerous boughs. ‘ Twould be some solace yet, some little cheering Or whistle from the lodge, or village cockĬount the night watches to his feathery dames, Or sound of pastoral reed with oaten stops, ![]() The folded flocks penn’d in their watled cotes, ![]()
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