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"I fear it," sighed Marianne "And if so, what fate then awaits our

poor princess? Helpless, alone, without er be in a condition to send money as he

promised Andpossess only a thousand scudi, with double that

ah to keep off deprivations for a tith these last resources are exhausted?" asked

Marianne--"e no longer have either money or diamonds--how then?"

"Oh, then," exclai face, "then e labor

for her! That, also, will be a pleasure, Marianne!"

While the tere thus conversing, Natalie, with a happy s her hy

return to the acco

fountains, and the chirping birds in the ht fullNatalie's face and form, the partially intoxicated and

perfectly happy Carlo whispered: "Only look, Marianne! does she not

reses, and with the

ht to mount up to the stars? Only look, seems it not as if the

an angel back

to its home?"