The Castle On the Rock Or the Successful Strategem
The Castle On the Rock Or the Successful Strategem
Samuel Springsguth
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, how difficult still did his preservation appear. They failed not, on the day af- ter the fire, to examine the place whence Mercia had caused the little Henry to descend. The open- ing was not situated very high in the tower ; but close to the place where he must have reached the ground, yawned a most tremen- dous chasm, the depth of which they vainly endeavoured to mea- sure with their eyes j their flesh 20 THE CASTLE ON THE ROCK. ^V^^^^^^'V^^-V^^^^'%/W^>.^-^ - ^ - V^V^ crept upon their bones..., and cold drops of terror chased each other down their pallid cheeks. Bitter was their grief, but no one heeded their lamentations ; their guards attended to nothing but the adventures of the past night; and all that they could collect from their discourse was, that the fire had been kindled by a lady confined in the castle. Her object, as they supposed, was to find some means of escaping, during the confusion which her rash action had necessarily pro- duced. She had tailed in her de- sign, but had suffered so severely by springing from a lofty window, and by the wounds she had receiv- THE CASTLE ON THE ROCK, 21 (^.
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