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A hundred projects were made and again abandoned; for in each were found innumerable difficulties, which made a happy result doubtful. But as the young warrior had found his bride determined to take any road that would lead them straight to the realization of their wishes, he proposed an elopement,—the safest invention of love, which has so many times succeeded, and will yet succeed, in spoiling the plans of parents and in overcoming their obstinacy. The young lady considered for a moment, but at last consented. There was yet, however, one thing to be considered, that was how she could make her exit from the well-bastioned and circumvallated castle, in order to throw herself into the arms of the welcome robber; for she knew that the vigilant mother, as soon as Wallenstein’s garrison should have left, would again fill up the vacant post, watch each of her steps, and scarcely lose sight of her. Inventive love, however, conquers all difficulties. It was well known to Emily that All Souls day, in the next autumn, was the time when, according to old tradition, the ghostly nun was after the lapse of seven years to make again her apparition in the castle; she also knew the fear in which all the inmates stood of her, therefore she projected the plan to