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"Which way?" Tignonville asked ih this door!" Mada when the Countess stepped forward and interposed between

him and the door

"Stay!" she cried; and there was not one who did not notice a new

decision in her voice, a new dignity in her bearing "Stay, Monsieur, we

uise--reater peril than you incur here? I feel sure that you are in no

danger of your life at present Therefore, why run the risk--"

"In no danger, Mada her in astonishibbet in the Square? Do you call that no danger?"

"It is not erected for you"

"No?"

"No, Monsieur," she answered firent reasons, why you should not go M de Tavannes"--she

named her husband nervously, as conscious of the weak spot--"before he

rode abroad laid strict orders on all to keep within, since the snonville, I request,

nay I entreat," she continued with greater urgency, as she saw his

gesture of denial, "you to stay here until he returns"

"And you, Madame, will answer for my life?"