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Dun was a hard little city, proud and harsh; but impregnable / because it was built upon a high rock. The host of the Visigoths / had besieged it for months in vain. Then came a fugitive from the / city, at midnight, to the tent of Alaric, the Chief of the besiegers.
The man was haggard and torn. His eyes were wild, his hands trembling. / The Chief held and steadied him with a look.