'hark!' cried emily, 'what noise was that?'
'what noise was it?' said ugo, starting up and listening.
'hush!' repeated emily.'it surely came from the ramparts above:'
and, on looking up, they perceived a light moving along the walls, while, in the next instant, the breeze swelling, the voice sounded louder than before.
'who goes yonder?' cried a sentinel of the castle.'speak or it will be worse for you.' bertrand uttered a shout of joy.'hah! my brave comrade, is it you?' said he, and he blew a shrill whistle, which signal was answered by another from the soldier on watch; and the party, then passing forward, soon after emerged from the woods upon the broken road, that led immediately to the castle gates, and emily saw, with renewed terror, the whole of that stupendous structure.
'alas!' said she to herself, 'i am going again into my prison!'
'here has been warm work, by st.marco!' cried bertrand, waving a torch over the ground; 'the balls have torn up the earth here with a vengeance.'
'aye,' replied ugo, 'they were fired from that redoubt, yonder, and rare execution they did.the enemy made a furious attack upon the great gates; but they might have guessed they could never carry it there; for, besides the cannon from the walls, our archers, on the two round towers, ered down upon them at such a rate, that, by holy peter! there was no standing it.i never saw a better sight in my life; i laughed, till my sides aked, to see how the knaves scampered.bertrand, my good fellow, thou shouldst have been among them; i warrant thou wouldst have won the race!'