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 and received with an imposing pleasure: the donor expected, and demanded, at length, a reward for the sacrifice he had made to me; but being cautioned by what I had overheard, I found it pretty easy to evade his violent caresses and tender menaces.

"Thus some weeks more elapsed, and I could still not find out proper means of effecting my escape. The danger of a longer stay grew every day more pressing. I knew, however, neither the district in which the castle was situated, nor the neighbourhood, and was carefully guarded. At length I attempted, with a very small probability of success, what I, perhaps, under more favourable circumstances, never had dared to risk. At a feast, which was given on my account, and on which all eyes were directed at me, I got suddenly from my throne, on which I was to receive an approaching procession, upon a walnut-tree, and fortunately concealed