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A very few strokes of the brazen-tongued clamourer had been enough / to wake the whole castle. Dorothy flew back to her chamber, and / hurrying on her clothes, descended again to the court. It was / already in full commotion. The western gate stood open, with the / portcullis beyond it high in the wall, and there she took her stand, / waiting the return of Eccles and his men.
Presently lord Charles came through the hall from the stone court, / and seeing the gate open, called aloud in anger to know what it / meant. Receiving no reply, he ran with an oath to drop the / portcullis.