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She was on her knees tomy boots, her eyes raised in entreaty--God, what entreaty!--to my own

"Rise, mademoiselle, I beseech you," I said, with a quiet I was far fro "There is no need for this Let us be caler to your father is not so imminent We may have soently and led her to a chair I was hard put to it not to hold her supported in e froular niceness, you will say, perhaps, as in your scorn you laugh at ether right

"You will go to Toulouse, ed

I took a turn in the rooo"

The gratitude that leapt to her eyes so," I continued quickly, "when you shall have promised to becolanced at

"I came to Lavedan to win you, Roxalanne, and fron," I said very quietly "You will therefore see that it rests with you how soon Isoftly, but answered nothing At last I turned fro?" she cried

"To take the air,yourself to marry me, send me word by Anatole or one of the others, and I shall set out at once for Toulouse"

"Stop!" she cried Obediently I stopped, my hand already upon the doorknob "You are cruel, monsieur!" she co it "To be cruel seems to be the way of love You have been cruel to iven?"

"I have the hope that when you see that you ive freely"

"If--if I erness

"You will fulfil your part of the bargain?"

"It is a habit of mine, mademoiselle--as witnesses the case of Chatellerault" She shivered at the mention of his naain that three nights ago she had made Precisely, did I say? Well, not quite precisely

"I--I pro voice, "whenever you choose, after my father shall have been set at liberty"