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stronger than grief, stronger than death, stronger than every other

feeling in the world; so he suddenly seized his hat, turned his back on

Ormiston and the apothecary's shop, and strode oft to the place he had

quitted

No Hubert was there, but two figures were passing slowly along in the

nized, with an ile him But he had been so shocked and

subdued by his recent discovery, that the impulse which, half an hour

before, would have been unhesitatingly obeyed, went for nothing, now;

and there was er in his voice, as he

went over and laid his hand on the shoulder of one of thee What have you

done with Leoline!"

"Ah! Sir Nor

his hat "Give sley, for St

Paul's has long gone the ht hour"

Sir Norman, with his hand still on his shoulder, returned not the

courtesy, and regarding the gallant count with a stern eye

"Where is Leoline?" he frigidly repeated