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"And was not that a good prophecy?" asked Paulo "Has it not been

fulfilled? Are you not happy?"

"I should be so," sighed Natalie, "could I avoid thinking so often of

that past! Those words which you then spoke to e, which I had always spoken until then, but of

which I know not the naue, and I felt like a poor deserted orphan, froe!"

"And yet whole peoples have been robbed of that last and dearest

possession!" said Paulo, his brow suddenly darkening, "and not, as in

your case, to save life and liberty, but for the purpose of enslaving

and oppressing the the sudden sadness of her friend, atte his hand, she said: "Coaries,

while all nature is so cheerful and so replete with divine beauty Only

see hat glowing splendor the departing sun rests upon the tops of

the cypresses! Ah, it is nowhere so beautiful as here in arden

This is my world and my happiness! Sometimes, Paulo, it ht suddenly tu behind the in the streets, could then look in upon my paradise! That

must be terrible, and yet Marianne tells me that other people live