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206 many there immured, they sought to mitigate by occasionally indulging in sports, such as the place afforded, either in the healthful exercise of ball or rackets, or in taking their daily walk, slowly measuring the space they trod, from one end of its length to the other.

In drawing a comparison between the busy scene before him and the dark back chamber he had quitted, De Brooke resigned himself with a better grace to his imprisonment than but a short period before he thought was possible. Blessed by the sight sometimes of his Angelina and children, he might steal a moment from languor; he might even quaff at the godly fountain of resignation; and thence, until some arrangement could be made in his affairs, enjoy a comparative happiness. With such reflections the night closed in; he betook himself to rest, and awaked in the morning refreshed by his slumbers.

The sun penetrating a narrow crevice of his shutter, darted its ardent beams across him; animated by the view, he hastened to arise. Robert had already done so an hour or two before: fearful of shortening the repose of his master, so essential he well knew to support him under his sorrows, he had performed with the greatest quietness, yet exactitude, all things necessary for his