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There was presently a fine co

up to hiate!"

"Open it," said Prosper

"Messire?"

"Open it, hound!"

The man reeled, but carried the order Prosper rode stately out; and

when he returned a second time it was at the head of the Countess

Isabel's troops

"Bailiff," said he, when they were in the citadel and all the news

out, "I am no friend of your mistress, as you know; but I a I shall declare it so;

until then Galors, if you please, is Lord Let me now say this," he

continued "I adh heart But you lack

one requisite of generalship, as it appears towith one thousand of your men, and

leave me five hundred of them to ith You may think yourself

lucky if you find one stone on another or one man's wife as she should

be By the tih

March You may send news thither that this place is quiet and