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"I know I felt Love's face

Pressed on race,

Till both our heads were in his aureole"

The news of the duel spread with the proverbial rapidity of evil news

At the doors of all the public houses, in every open shop, on every

private stoop, and at the street-corners, people were soon discussing

the event, with such additions and coested One party insisted that lawyer Selish officer; a third, that both died as

they were being carried froered to the last , heard the story fronant at Katherine He felt, indeed, as if his own

character for morality of every kind had been smirched by his intended

connection with her And his Joanna! Hoicked Katherine had been not

to remember that she had a sister whose spotless name would be tarnished

by her kinship! He was hot with haste and anger when he reached Van

Heemskirk's house

Mada anxiously down the

road She are that Bram had called for his father, and she had

heard theether in unexplained haste At first, the

incident did not trouble her much Perhaps one of the valuable Norman