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"But to leave like this has the pang of death!" Steinbock re even kissed the bride?"

"The bargain is concluded on all sides; you have your thousand crowns"

"But not love's tribute I must have that It is worth a thousand

crowns Besides," with a perceptible change in his et the contempt hich you have always looked upon me, even in

the old days that were fair and prosperous? Scarcely! Opportunity is

a thing that can not be perhtly" Then I

observed his nose wrinkle; he was sniffing "Tobacco! I did not know

that you sone!" cried the old fellow, his hands opening and shutting

"Presently!" With a laugh he sprang toward her Highness, but Leopold

was too quick for hile, and I saw the valiant old man reel, fall

and strike his head on the stone of the hearth He lay perfectly

motionless So unexpected was this scene to my eyes that for a time I

ithout any particular sense of h Steinbock sprang toward her Highness again Quick

as light she snatched up my crop, which lay on the table, and struck

the rascal full across the eyes, again and again and again, following

hinificent But, as fate

deter the

stick frorin It was then

I awoke to the fact that I was needed