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your face hite and shining in the ht--and there

was--blood upon it, and you looked like one that is--dead!" and

she shivered

"And you have brought

upon hed, and

leaned against a tree "Indeed," said I, "I ary--you spoke of a rabbit, I think--"

"A rabbit!" said Chariven htless speech

"I--I think you did

deeper

"So, then--you deceived me, you lay there and deceived e of ht ; it--it all

seemed so unreal, so--so beyond all belief and possibility and--"

I stopped, aghast at

to her feet, and hid her face in her hands, while I stood

dumbfounded, like the fool I was When she looked up, her eyes

seeht Mr Vibart a h and chivalrous--oh! I thought hientleman!"