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It was late evening when, riding wearily on jaded horses, they caers, and saw before thelow of sunset had faded, but the sky was still ith the last

hues of day; and against its opal light the huge evin

castle, which even in sunshine rises dark and forbidding above the

Mayenne, stood up black and sharply defined Below it, on both banks of

the river, the towers and spires of the city soared up froe-roofs, broken here by a round-headed gateway, cru

and pigeon-haunted, that dated froaunt

arht sky, keeping well its secrets Thousands

were out of doors enjoying the evening coolness in alley and court, yet

it betrayed the life which pulsed in its arteries only by the low ht of its roofs

tasted the first ht suffer, but she had saved Those roofs would thank her! In that

murmur were the voices of woht and at the thought a wave of love and tenderness swept all

bitterness from her breast A profound humility, a boundless

thankfulness took possession of her Her head sank lower above her

horse's mane; but this time it sank in reverence, not in sha beneath those roofs which night was

blending in a cohts which at