under his arm, took both my trembling hands in his; and drawing me
swiftly after him, Fly, fly, my charmer; this moment is all you have for
it, said he.--Your brother!--your uncles!--or this Solmes!--they will
instantly burst the door--fly, my dearest life, if you would not be more
cruelly used than ever--if you would not see two or three murders
committed at your feet, fly, fly, I beseech you.

O Lord:--help, help, cried the fool, all in amaze and confusion, frighted
beyond the power of controuling.

Now behind me, now before me, now on this side, now on that, turned I my
affrighted face, in the same moment; expecting a furious brother here,
armed servants there, an enraged sister screaming, and a father armed
with terror in his countenance more dreadful than even the drawn sword
which I saw, or those I apprehended. I ran as fast as he; yet knew not
that I ran; my fears adding wings to my feet, at the same time that they
took all power of thinking from me--my fears, which probably would not
have suffered me to know what course to take, had I not had him to urge
and draw me after him: especially as I beheld a man, who must have come
out of the door, keeping us in his eye, running now towards us; then back
to the garden; beckoning and calling to others, whom I supposed he saw,
although the turning of the wall hindered me from seeing them; and whom
I imagined to be my brother, my father, and their servants.

Thus terrified, I was got out of sight of the door in a very few minutes:
and then, although quite breathless between running and apprehension, he
put my arm under his, his drawn sword in the other hand, and hurried me
on still faster: my voice, however, contradicting my action; crying, no,
no, no, all the while; straining my neck to look back, as long as the
walls of the garden and park were within sight, and till he brought me