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if you do take it, what odds? You have only a few years to live, at the

most, and what matter whether you die now or at the end of a year or

two?"

"What nant amazement

"It reat deal

to me; I can tell you; and into that infected house I'll not put one

foot"

"Just as you please, only in that case there is no need for further

talk, so allow ht!"

"But, madame, what of Leoline? Do stop one moment and tell me of her"

"What have I to tell? I have told you all I know If you want to find

her, you must search in the city or in the pest-house!"

Prudence shuddered, and covered her face with her hands

"O, ht surely have

spared her! Are you going to do nothing farther about it?"

"What can I do? I have searched for her and have not found her, and what

else re--surely, surely you knohere ain La Masque laughed--another of her loeet, derisive laughs