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"Wanda!" I exclaier love me," she continued, "tell ive back to you your freedo, for I adore you and shall always adore you," I cried, seized by that fanaticism of love which has repeatedly been so fatal to me

Wanda looked at me with a curious pleasure "Consider hat you do," she said "I have loved you infinitely and have been despotic towards you so that I , a sort of real sympathy for you, still treone who knohether then I shall give you your liberty; whether I shall not then become really cruel, merciless, even brutal toward; whether I shall not take a diabolical pleasure in tor on the rack the man orships me idolatrously, the while I remain indifferent or love so hi since considered all that," I replied as in a glow of fever "I cannot exist, cannot live without you; I shall die if you set me at liberty; let me remain your slave, kill me, but do not drive me away"

"Very well then, be er love you, and your love doesn't s are kicked"

To-day I visited the Venus of Medici

It was still early, and the little octagonal roohts like a sanctuary; I stood with folded hands in deep adoration before the silent i

Not a hulishman, and I fell down onbreasts, the virginal and yet voluptuous face, the fragrant curls which seemed to conceal tiny horns on each side of the forehead