The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 350: what you’re looking at

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THH BANDITTI’S TOWER 300 bade her farewell, and she still kept up her dissimulation hy much weeping and sobbing. Previous to his departure, he gave the strictest injunctions to the members of the hand as to the precise amount of freedom which his wife and the two prisoners (Mr. Forester and his valet) were respectively to be allowed, having done which, he set out on his journey. One of the females appointed to attend upon Juliana spoke French fluently, and from her lips the brigand-captain’s wife accordingly understood that she would be permitted to take exercise within a circuit of a mile of the tower, and a similar communication was made to the prisoners. Julana learned from the same source of the presence of those prisoners at the tower, and on hearing that they were fellow countrymen, she was suddenly inspired by the secret hope that if she were enabled to communicate with them they would aid in her escape. She did not, however, think it prudent to precipitate the means which might be adopted as a test to ascertain whether she should be enabled to communicate with them or not; she therefore remained in her own chamber throughout the whole of that first day of her sojourn at the tower. In the evening the valet who had been left behind at the cottage in the French village made his appearance at the robbers’ stronghold, and Juliana learned that her own maid — whom she had originally engaged in Paris— had declined to accompany the valet to rejoin her mistress, now that she knew that her master, — instead of being the Count de Toledo, was a famous brigand- chief. We should likewise add that Juliana despatched, according to her husband’s instructions, one of the women to Barcelona, to make such purchases as were requisite; and in the meantime she managed as well as she was able with all such necessaries for the toilet as the females, whose wardrobes were by no means badly supplied, were enabled to furnish. On the following day Juliana availed herself of her privilege to walk in the neighbourhood of the tower, and presently she beheld a gentleman, whom she at once concluded to be the English prisoner, roaming about likewise. It was beyond the limits of the grove of cork-trees that she thus descried him, but as her looks swept around with a wider range, she noticed six or seven of the banditti posted on eminences at certain intervals, so as to engirdle, as it were, with a cordon CONnNIEDOOKS (C@)