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away But the count did both; and ten minutes after, when the rain had

entirely ceased, and the le for supre like a dark

shadow in the sa in at Leoline's door The

sao

"The stor out, and with the

profound air of onea new discovery, "and we are likely to have

fine weather for the reht, count"

"Farewell," said the count, as he and, his companion came out from the

shadow of the archway, and turned to follow La Masque

Orthan in Leoline or her visitors,

paid very little attention to his two acquaintances He saw them, it

is true, enter Leoline's house, but at the same instant, he took up his

post at La Masque's doorway, and concentrated his whole attention on

that piece of architecture Every moment seemed like a week now; and

before he had stood at his post five minutes, he had worked himself up

into a perfect fever of impatience Sometimes he was inclined to knock

and seek La Masque in her own ho

rebuke paralyzed his hand when he raised it He was so sure she was

within the house, that he never thought of looking for her elsewhere;

and when, at the expiration of what seemed to him a century or two,

but which in reality was about a quarter of an hour, there was a soft

rustling of drapery behind him, and the sweetest of voices sounded in

his ear, it fairly made him bound