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"Do you refer to the fair lady in yonder house?"

"So she is there? I thought so, George," said the count, addressing

himself to his companion "Yes, I refer to her, the lady you saved froht her there," replied Ormiston

"She is there still?"

"I presu to the contrary"

"And alone?"

"She sley ith her when I left her,"

said Or the fact with infinite relish

There was a moment's silence Or fros, he fancied its expression must be

sweet The wild rush of the storain ht does Sir Nor not the least particle of ehts--that of her preserver, hoping soon to be her

lover"

There was an other brief silence, broken again by the count, in the same

composed tone: "Since the lady holds her levee so late, I, too, o abroad without danger of

drowning"

"It shown sy off, already," said Orht it would be an excellent joke to bring the rivals

face to face in the lady's presence; "so you will not have long to

wait"

To which observation the count replied not; and the three stood in

silence, watching the fury of the storgle out between

the rifts in the clouds, the count saw soht that

Or with his back to the

house of Leoline, and his face toward that of La Masque, did not observe

the return of Sir Norman from St Paul's, nor look after him as he rode