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hanging, and worst of all for her, it seeood to find death shen he comes (since co And life is here urgent,

though in fetters, in this child's breast; but death is not yet here

Yet if I leave her she gains death, or life (which is worse), and if I

take her with me it can only be one way What then! ait for the life that needeth, whether by

jurave or by means slower but not less sure And if by

any deed of ht

into her eyes (which now are all dark), and set the flush on her grey

cheeks which she was assuredly designed to carry there; and if she

breathe sweet air and grow in the grace of God and sight of men--why

then I have done well, however else I do"

He thought no ain in both of his

"Well, Isoult," he said cheerfully, "thou shalt not be hanged yet

awhile, nor shall that worse thing befall thee I ed thee as

soon as I may At cock-croo will seek a priest"

"Lord," she said, "a priest is here in this place"