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"You remember how you seized me, and how by your manner you showed me that it was not vanity alone had ht; even in that hour I iht of ive you some amusement to pass the leisure and monotony of your sojourn with us"

"Roxalanne--my poor Roxalanne!" I whispered

"Then ainst you You had broken ht that you had done it wantonly For that I burned to punish you Ah! and not only that, perhaps I think, too, that sohted me, yet you had made me love you, and if you were not for me I swore you should be for no other And so, whileto Auch, to his sister's house, I came to Toulouse and betrayed you to the Keeper of the Seals

"Scarce was the thing done than I beheld the horror of it, and I hatedthe journey to Auch, but turned and ht still coe of the soldiers At Grenade, too I learnt the truth--that you were not Lesperon Can you not guess sobetrayed you, think into what despair I was plunged by Monsieur de Marsac's intimation

"Then I understood that for reasons of your own you had concealed your identity You were not perhaps, betrothed; indeed, I remembered then how, soleht me that your vows to ht honourably listen to"

"They were, Roxalanne! they were!" I cried

But she continued "That you had Made that I could not explain; but then I hear that you had also Lesperon's papers upon you; so that you may have become possessed of the one with the others And now, ainstin her bitter passion of regret, until it seeain her self-control

"It has been all my fault, Roxalanne," said I, "and if I ah I euedoc under false colours I wish, indeed, that I had told you when first the irew impossible"