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queen, rather fiercely "If not, the sooner we leave this ghastly place

the better The play is over, and supper is waiting"

With which the royal virago ossamer white to precede her, and turned with her accustoed froe to a spirited measure, and the whole coreat roo in

uncertainty around the roohtly in one hand, stood at the foot of the throne, glancing at

thehty and beautiful eyes In their wandering,

those sahted on Sir Nor stupor at the horrible scene he had just

witnessed, stood near the green table, and they sent a thrill through

him with their wonderful resemblance to Leoline's So vividly alike were

they, that he half doubted for a moment whether she and Leoline were not

really one; but no--Leoline never could have had the cold, cruel heart

to stand and witness such a horrible eight Miranda's dark, piercing

glance fell as haughtily and disdainfully on hiht that whatever syht have been a whim, a woman's caprice, a

spirit of contradiction, that had induced her to defend him at first

Whatever it was, and it mattered not now, it had completely vanished No

face of marble could have been colder, of stonier, or harder, than hers,

as she looked at hireat dark eyes; and with

that look, his last lingering hope of life vanished