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The Countess had no such thought "They ed her horse in obedience to the order

"Whoever they are!" Tignonville muttered bitterly "If we knehat had

happened, or who folloe should know more about it, Madame For

that matter, I knohat I wish he would do And our heads are set for

it"

"What?"

"Make for Vrillac!" he answered, a savage gleam in his eyes

"For Vrillac?"

"Yes"

"Ah, if he would!" she cried, her face turning pale "If he would He

would be safe there!"

"Ay, quite safe!" he answered with a peculiar intonation And he looked

at her askance

He fancied that his thought, the thought which had just flashed into his

brain, was her thought; that she had the same notion in reserve, and that

they were in syether, and

noting her look and the fervour of her gesture, formed the same opinion,

and retired more darkly into hinanimity unparalleled and beyond coers--his disappointht

have roused the worst passions of a better man But there was in this

man a pride on a level at least with his other passions: and to bear

hiht so that if she could not love

hiree the current of his

rage