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and her nurse!"

"Still she consented; and a bond is a bond, and a promise a promise, all

the world over"

"Not with a woe to break their proe their mind sixty times an

hour, if they choose Leoline has seen fit to do both, and has accepted

ive her up!"

"Softly, ht to have known it!" returned Sir Normatical way; "or if you didn't, you do now; so say noer, until we see which of us has the best

right to the lady I have a prior claim"

"A forced one Leoline does not care a snap far you--and she loves htfully "Did she

tell you that?"

"Yes; she did tell , and tell me where she is, or I'll--"

"Oh, no, you wouldn't!" said the count, teasingly "Since ht I'll tell you what I'll do I acknowledge that I carried

off Leoline, viewing her as my promised bride, and have sent her to ive you my word of

honor, I have not been since She is as safe there, and , and it would be a pity to disturb her

at this unseasonable hour When the ether--state our rival clai, can have her, and end the matter at once"