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"And now I'--alone Stand aside, and let me pass"

"No, madam"

"Let me pass, I warn you!"

For a minute they fronted each other, eye to eye, very silent and

still, like two antagonists that th; then

Barnabas smiled and shook his head And in that very instant, quick

and passionate, she raised her whip and struck hi, half fearful of what she had done,

Barnabas reached out and took the whip, and snapped it between his

hands

"And now," said he, tossing aside the broken pieces, "pray let us go"

"No"