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140 there was only a distance of three paces from the table to the door, which was all the extent of my walk. I heard men working in the room I had just left, and buckets with lime were brought, very likely to whitewash the walls; in short, everything showed that they were expecting new guests. Four or five days after, I was reinstated in my first room, with a mystery and caution which I should have deemed ridiculous, if they had not sadly reminded me what importance they attached to my person, and how much they seemed to apprehend my escaping them.