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"With her own lips?"

Count Hannibal raised his eyebrows "With her own lips, if you will," he

said And then, advancing a step and addressing her, with unusual

gravity, "Madeentleman requires Will you be pleased to confirm what I have said?"

She did not answer, and in the intense silence which held the roorasp a wo The colour

ebbed froeted on their feet

Count Hannibal looked round, his head high "There is no call for

tears," he said; and whether he spoke in irony or in a strange obtuseness

was known only to hihtly--to

answer a question so momentous Under the pressure of utmost peril, she

passed her word; the more reason that, now the time has coht Since she gave her

promise, Monsieur, she has hadits

fulfil is farther

frohts"

He was silent a moment; and then, "Mademoiselle," he said, "I would not

hurry you"

Her eyes were closed, but at that her lips h, of relief, of pity, of God knohat,