Don't forget the proper way to use it.
Strike like this, and then do so; you can rip him up beautifully. As
for me, I'm going to hunt up a quiet corner where I can get a nap. No,
I can't stay here, for we must not be seen together; it would never do.
Now do you be sure to keep away from that window. You must not even go
near it, no matter what you hear, for fear they might suspect that you
hoped for help from that direction. If they did, it would be all up with
us; for they would send out and search the woods, and beat the bushes,
and find our friends where they lie hidden. The whole thing would fall
through, and you would have to stop here with this horrid duke that you
hate so much."
"I will not go near the window," Isabelle answered, "nor even look
towards it, however much I may wish to. You may depend upon my
discretion, Chiquita, I do assure you."
Reassured upon this important point, Chiquita crept softly away, and
went back to the lower room where she had left the ruffians carousing.
They were still there--lying about on the benches and the floor, in a
drunken sleep, and evidently had not even missed her. She curled herself
up in a corner, as far as might be from the loathsome brutes, and was
asleep in a minute. The poor child was completely tired out; her slender
little feet had travelled eight leagues the night before, running a good
part of the way, and the return on horseback had perhaps fatigued her
even more, being unaccustomed to it.
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