He hurled himself furiously against the door, but it resisted all his efforts to burst it open.

Suddenly the bolt was withdrawn, and Clement Lanyere and his men stood before him.
"Have you secured him ?" Sir Giles demanded, trying to descry the fugitive among them.

"Death and fiends! you have not let him escape ?" "No one has passed us, except Madame Bonaventure," the promoter replied.
"She was wholly unattended, and came in this direction.

We were stationed within yon anti-chamber, which appears to be the sole means of communication with this passage, and we ought therefore to have intercepted the young man when he came forth." "You were not wont to be thus short-sighted, Lanyere.

There must be some other mode of exit, which you have failed to discover," Sir Giles cried furiously.