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"Alas, my brother," he said half whimsically, "do you smile? Even so I

think God should s be made And if,

as I believe, you know the truth at last, that is why you also s to do the office,

"shut your eyes, for you wore the and now can see

without them Let them rest"

Very tenderly he pulled him out of the water, very reverently took

hiates, and over hirace to see He was too good

a Christian not to pray over the grave, and not sufficient of a hero

to be frank about his tears At the end of all this business he found

his horse Then he rode off at a canter for Hauterive

It is one thing to kindle h

Bailiff, quite another to bid theh Bailiff of Wan held hieneralissimo's departure; at the

end of five days he could endure it no more His harness clamoured,

his sword tarnished for blood; he had fifteen hundred men in steel

That wouldblades, and the

unvoiced reproaches of fifteen hundred and one suits of h Bailiff itched to try a fall with the redoubtable

Galors de Born