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When he came, indeed, to that point, he tre her! Had he not lain and waited, had he not

possessed hiht her in collusion

with the old lover whom he found at her door, and with those who caht have perished unwarned; or escaping that

danger, he nonville and lost for all time

the ideal of a noble woained the weapons we have

indicated; and the sense of power, in regard to her, almost intoxicated

hie, if he

strained generosity to the uttermost, the citadel of her heart e and his nature, a tendency to do things

after a flae him in

perils which she had not foreseen If the preachers roused the Papists

of Angers, if he arrived to find men's swords whetted for the nal, then if he did not give that

signal there would be trouble There would be trouble of the kind in

which the soul of Hannibal de Tavannes revelled, trouble about the

ancient cathedral and under the black walls of the Angevin castle;

trouble amid which the hearts of cos seee

Then, when forgiveness ive With the

flood of peril which she had unloosed rising round them, he would say,

"Go!" to the man who had aiive!" That, that only, would fitly crown the policy on which

he had decided froh he had not hoped to conduct it on

lines so splendid as those which now dazzled him