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boso lips!

She was so , and

intoxicating herself with fantastic iinations! She was surrounded by

a fabulous world, and she was the fairy of that world! But out of that

fabulous world she soed to be, out of the ideal into the

real; she yearned for truth and actuality Then she would call Joseph

Ribas to her side and bid him relate to her of that unknown lord, his

master

He told her of his battles and his heroic deeds, of his wonderful acts

of bravery, and the young ly listened

to him She feared this man, who had shed strea lips had lauded as the greatest of heroes! And

Joseph Ribas smiled when he saw her turn pale and treenerosity and huhthood and

virtue; he related to her how, on one occasion, at the risk of his life

he had protected and saved a persecuted young maiden; how on another

he had taken pity on a helpless old ainst a host of bloodthirsty enemies He also spoke to her of the

sorrow of his ratitude and deceptions he had

experienced, and Natalie's eyes filled with tears as, with reproachful

glances, she asked of Heaven how it could have permitted the virtue of

this noble unknown hero to be so severely tried, and the baseness of

mankind to trouble him