Page:The Necromancer, or, The Tale of the Black Forest Vol. 2.djvu/230

 One of the company thought I might be concealed under the bed, but his idea of my still being in the house was, to my inexpressible satisfaction, treated with ridicule. At length my situation became extremely painful to me, and I wished fervently my unwelcome visitors might be gone."

"After two tedious hours I was at length released of my fear to be detected by some unforeseen accident, when the landlord and his friends left also the room where I was hidden. As soon as the coast was clear, and the tranquillity of the house restored, I climbed higher up into the chimney with the intention to get upon the roof; however, on maturer consideration I thought it safer to remain where I was, hearing many voices in the field, which made me afraid of being detected."

"The time crept slowly on, and I thought the wished-for hour of midnight would never set in: Hunger and thirst increased