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"I will do it!" sheon a sudden and unaccountable

impulse And as she knelt, she shook her hair about her face to hide its

colour

"Nay, Madaers!" he said coldly

"Perers shook,

she pursued and performed her task

When she rose he thanked her; and then the devil in the man, or the

Nemesis he had provoked when he took her by force from another--the

Nemesis of jealousy, drove him to spoil all

"And for whose sake, Madanonville's?" And with a glance between jest and earnest, he tried to

read her thoughts

She winced as if he had indeed struck her, and the hot colour fled her

cheeks

"For his sake!" she said, with a shiver of pain "That his lifeThough, indeed,

it was for the sake of Angers, in thankfulness for the past rather than

in any desperate hope of propitiating her husband, that she had done it!

Perhaps he would have withdrawn his words But before he could answer,

the host, bowing to the floor, came to announce that all was ready, and

that the Provost of the City, for who below