Now and again we flash by the bold outlines of a ruined castle crowning a crag: the site always

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chosen with so much discretion that one wonders not only how enemies ever got in, but how
the owners themselves ever emerged-unless they fell out.
The author's use of sarcasm in this sentence demonstrates that the narrator

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is mocking the owners of the ruined castle and their supposed ability to safely navigate in and out of the castle.