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 Highness's faithful servants, indeed we are, my Lord, though poor men; I say, not one of us has dared to set a foot about the castle, but two together: So Diego and I, thinking that my young Lady might be in the great gallery, went up there to look for her, and tell her your Highness wanted something to impart to her—O blundering fools! cried Manfred: And in the mean time she has made her escape, because you were afraid of goblins!—Why, thou knave! she left me in the gallery; I came from thence myself. For all that, she may be there still for ought I know said Jaquez; but the devil shall have me before I seek her there again!—poor Diego! I do not believe he will ever recover it! recover what? said Manfred; am I never to learn what it is has terrified these rascals?—but I lose my time; follow me slave; I will see if she is in the gallery—for heaven's sake, my dear good Lord, cried Jaquez, do not go to the gallery! Satan himself I believe is in the great chamber next to the gallery—Manfred, who hitherto had treated the