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"Another dreadful threat--and aren't your , I love-"Remember your promise!" interrupted Myra "If, as you say, I torture

you so horribly, perhaps you would prefer me to avoid you?"

"No, no, a thousand times, no!" Don Carlos cried "I was desolated

when you refused to dance with ht, and you put me to the

torture later in the conservatory I wanted to murder the other man,

the one in particular on whom you bestowed your favours"

"Dear me! What a bloodthirsty creature! Incidentally, are you not

still atte love has

become a sort of second nature, and you do not know you are breaking

your promise?"

"I stand rebuked, sweet lady, and crave your pardon," said Don Carlos

"Never yet have I consciously broken a promise And let me remind you

that I have made you several pro her eyebrows inquiringly