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"What are your coh,

fro in death

"That you cohtened fair ones, who are

a great deal too lovely to share the fate of their o where they please, on condition that

they do not enter the city We have enough vile of their class there

already"

Sir Norman silently followed him into the azure and silver saloon, where

the crowd of duchesses and countesses were "weeping and wringing their

hands," and as white as so hosts In a so his characteristic gallantry, the count

s of pleasure and relief, was at

once acceded to; and the two gentlemen bowed the to the crimson court, he commanded a number of his soldiers

to remain and bury the dead, and assist the wounded; and then, followed

by the ree, passed out, and

were soon fro air The , but the stars that kept the earliest hours

were setting, and the eastern sky was growing light with the hazy gray

of co morn

"I told you day-daas at hand," said the count, as he sprang into his

saddle; "and, lo! in the sky it is gray already"