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"You are more like to split my ears!" Count Hannibal answered sternly

"And now ers, and

though you be shaven twice over, I will have you silenced after a fashion

which will not please you! If you value your tongue therefore,

father--Oh, you shake off the dust, do you? Well, pass on! 'Tis wise,

perhaps"

And undis brows, and the cross ostentatiously lifted

to heaven, he gazed after the procession as it

banner, now one and now another of the acolytes looking back and raising

his hands to invoke the bolt of Heaven on the blasphehs, and the open gateway of the

inn, the knot of persons congregated there fell on their knees In

answer the Church the

Eripe , now

rising on a wave of menace, they passed slowly into the distance, slowly

towards Angers and the Loire

Suddenly Madah for o no farther with you!"

"Ah?"

"No farther!" she repeated She was pale, she shivered "Many thanks,

ers I have seen