&c, &c.
We will not follow the hypocrite through the impious cant which he added, in order to close the subject.
Alan followed him, in silent abhorrence, to the recess in which the beaufet was placed, and which was so artificially made as to conceal another of those traps with which the whole building abounded.

This concealment admitted them to the same winding passage by which the young lawyer had been brought thither.

The path which they now took amid these mazes, differed from the direction in which he had been guided by Rutledge.

It led upwards, and terminated beneath a garret window.
Trumbull opened it, and with more agility than his age promised, clambered out upon the leads.

If Fairford's journey had been hitherto in a stifled and subterranean atmosphere, it was now open, lofty, and airy enough; for he had to follow his guide over leads and slates, which the old smuggler traversed with the dexterity of a cat.