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Fortunately no person was there; but Edwin found it full of spare arms, with two or three vacant couches in different corners, where he supposed the officers on guard occassionally reposed; several watch-cloaks lay on the floor.
No matter; I am not sorry to find I can stand a brush of weather yet; I like to see Arthur's Seat and the stern old Castle with their white watch-cloaks on. But, as Byron said to Moore, "d -n it, Tom, don't be poetical." I settled to Boney, and wrote right long and well. March 4. I sat in by the chimney-neuk with no chance of interruption, and "feagued it away."
He looked up at the ramparts, and saw that the sentinels stood silent and apart, wrapped in their heavy watch-cloaks, and supported on their trusty weapons. It was perfectly apparent that the events of his night of suffering and despair had passed unheeded by the outer world. He glanced back with a shudder upon his wounded and helpless limb; then his eyes fixed themselves upon the wall.
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