Wonderful escape
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共 22 段- Leon stole out, and gave the weapons to the young man; and,
- Benvenuto Cellini lived nearly twenty years at Rome, produci
- Cellini was well treated for a time in his new prison. He wa
- “Everything succeeded according to his wish. His trusty vale
- In December, 1652, Cardinal de Retz, who had played so consi
- “Mr. Woolfe, when the country fellow told him it was one tha
- The poor lieutenant had not been able to follow his captain.
- During the battle of Culloden, Charles Edward had exposed hi
- “At that instant I snatched his sword from his side, on whic
- “My dungeon,” he says, “was in a casemate, the fore part of
- “With the bar that separated my hands I loosened the bricks
- “But all these promises were illusory. The guard was reinfor
- “I had no doubt whatever as to his curiosity, but I was abso
- “‘Swear it,’ I said, ‘before this holy image! And now, most
- “In half an hour the hole was large enough. Had it not been,
- “It was not raining, and we could distinctly hear the footfa
- “He was taken away with twenty other unhappy victims. ‘After
- “We had already passed seven or eight days trying to kill ti
- The watch kept over them was purely nominal, they had commun
- After a few minutes of complete insensibility, he came to hi
- “Well, good-bye, take care of yourself,” replied Dupin; whil
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