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M de Tignonville was shaken by the fall, and in the usual course of

things he would have lain where he was, and groaned But when a man has

once turned his back on death he is apt to fancy it at his shoulder He

has sreat a

distance as possible between the ugly thing and hiuenot Shot suddenly into the full publicity of the street, he

knew that at any instant danger lancing up and down before the clatter of his fall had

travelled the length of three houses

The rabble were still a hundred paces away, piled up and pressed about a

house wherehunted as men hunt rats He saw that he was

unnoted, and apprehension gave place to rage His thoughts turned back

hissing hot to the thing that had happened, and in a paroxys case face of his rival,

diround If a look would have killed Tavannes--and

her--it had not been wanting

For it was not only the nonville hated at this ent of the other's triuuided by him; she had

resisted, thwarted, shamed him Then let her take the consequences She

willed to perish: let her perish!