postern

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To-morrow they were filing back through that postern that had given them this, their fortnight's respite, from tasks too often ignoble, from cramped circumstances, from savourless lives.

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I will write to her that, if at ten o'clock she will be alone at the postern gate of the castle, she will hear news that may save her uncle's life.

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But Rollo, looking out, saw that they had only stopped at a postern.

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Prissy waved her hand vigorously, and had already proceeded a little way towards the stepping-stones, when she stopped, laid down her basket, and ran back to the postern gate.

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They passed me with averted eyes, and hurried towards a little postern which flanked the old tower, and opened on the ramparts.

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