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It was a wily trap he had set me, worthy only of a trickster

Fate, however, had taken a hand in the game, and the cards were redealt since I had left Paris The terer permitted me to choose any line of action that I considered desirable; but Destiny, it seemed, had chosen for me, and set me in a line that should at least suffice to overcome the parental resistance--that breastwork upon which Chatellerault had so confidently depended

As the rebel Rene de Lesperon I was sheltered at Lavedan and made welcome by my fellow-rebel the Vicomte, who already see ht be--had told him of me As Rene de Lesperon IGod ht be pleased to refrain fro Lavedan whilst I was there