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The interieon floor

a her bleeding

and senseless, was not reat deal may be

done in twenty minutes judiciously expended, and most decidedly it was

so in the present case Both rats and beetles paused to conte lamp, and Miranda paused to contemplate them, and Sir

Norman paused to contemplate her, for an instant or so in silence Her

, struck him more

and more--there was the saht, straight, graceful figure, the same small oval delicate

features; the sae,

dark, brilliant eyes; the saio's s was expression--in

Leoline's face there was a kind of childlike simplicity; a look half

shy, half fearless, half solemn in her wonderful eyes; but in this,

her prototype, there was nothing shy or sole eyes were full of a dull, dusky fire She

looked as hard and cold and bitter, as she was beautiful; and Sir Norht her here

Surely not sy that face of stone, could

even know theof such a word While he looked at her, half

wonderingly, half pityingly, half tenderly--a queer word that last,