Charlotte Smith

“ Rosalie, now confirmed in her resolution to depart, looked as it she would express her thanks, when Walsingham, who appeared already to have acquired the art of reading her thoughts, said, "And do not, I beseech you, Madam, imagine that, by my undertaking this, you will be under the least obligation to me: far otherwise, believe me—for you will confer the greatest to possible obligations on a man, to whom life has no longer any value, but what he can derive from being serviceable to others." ”

“ Walsingham, be became impatient.—"If the doors are not easily opened, (cried he) , we will cut them down; any, rather batter them with three or four eight pounders, from our galley, than fail."—Rosalie turned pale at the very mention of any expedient of this kind.—Ah, no! (said she) ; if my escape cannot be effected without the hazard of shedding blood, I must resign myself to my deplorable destiny—for I had rather perish here than be the cause of one man's death. ”

“ Rosalie, however, after pausing a moment; said she recollected, that, on the day when Cattina undertook to show her where she might, perhaps, find some books, she had led her along a passage adjoining to her bedchamber, and from thence down several flights of narrow stairs to the bottom of the building, whence some places, that appeared like arched vaults, led into the room where the papers were deposited, and from thence there was a door opening into the fossé next the garden. ”