They Were Placed In A Stately Gallery, And There Left, While The
Officer, Who Commanded The Party That Came With
Them, went into an inner
room, but soon after returned, and another person with him; on which,
the first of
This unhappy string was loosed from his companions, and a
signal made to him to enter a door, which was opened for him, and
immediately closed again.
For about half an hour there was a profound silence: our prisoners kept
it thro' astonishment; and the others, it is to be supposed, had orders
for doing so. - At the end of that time the door was again opened, and
the chain which fastened the second Swede to the others, was untied, and
he, in like manner as the former, bid to go in. - In some time after, the
same ceremony was observed to a third; - then to a fourth, fifth, sixth,
and seventh: - Horatio chanced to be the last, who, tho' alarmed to a
very great degree at the thoughts of what fate might have been inflicted
on his companions, went fearless in, more curious to know the meaning of
this mysterious proceeding, than anxious for what might befal him.
He had no sooner passed the door, than he found himself in a spacious
chamber richly adorned, at the upper end of which sat a man, leaning his
head upon his arm in a thoughtful posture. - Horatio immediately knew him
to be prince Menzikoff, whom he had seen during a short truce between
the czar and king Charles of Sweden, when both their armies were in
Lithuania.
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