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"Then Leoline is French and of noble birth?" said Sir Norman, with

a thrill of pleasure "I loved her for herself alone, and would have

wedded her had she been the child of a beggar; but I rejoice to hear

this nevertheless Her father, then, bore a title?"

"Her father was the Marquis de Montmorenci, but Leoline's mother and

mine were not the saht have

been very different; but it is too late to laentle blood in her veins, as Leoline's had, for she was but a

fisherhter, torn from her home, and married by force Neither

did she lovehis youth, rank, and passionate

love for her, for she was betrothed to another bourgeois, like herself

For his sake she refused even the title of marchioness, offered her in

the , with deathless

truth, to her fisher-lover The blood of the Montmorencis is fierce

and hot, and brooks no opposition" (Sir Norht of Miranda, and

inwardly owned that that was a fact); "and the marquis, in his jealous

wrath, both hated and loved her at the saeois lover That vow he kept The young

fisher at his lady-love's door without a head,