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"Seen her?" he echoed whih felt her The air of this room is still disturbed as a consequence of her presence She was here an hour ago"

"And it see-book, "as if the three daughters of Acheron had quitted the dole woh La Fosse had not spoken, "but she would not be denied I heard her voice blasphe in the antechamber when I refused to receive her; there was a commotion at my door; it was dashed open, and the Sho held it was hurled into h he had been a ned in France I have not been the centre of sowoman, Marcel the saints defend you hereafter, when she shall come to be your ue is the only stouter thing than her arm But she's a fool"

"What did she say, Sire?" I asked in my anxiety

"Say? She swore--Ciel! how she did swear! Not a saint in the calendar would she let rest in peace; she dragged them all by turns from their chapter-rolls to bear witness to the truth of what she said"

"That was--"

"That her husband was the foulest traitor out of hell But that he was a fool with no wit of his own to make hione astray Upon those grounds she besought o When I told her that he must stand his trial, and that I could offer her but little hope of his acquittal, she told s about myself, which in my conceit, and thanks to you flatterers who have surrounded ly, sour-faced, and malformed; that I was priest-ridden and a fool; unlike my brother, who, she assured me, is a mirror of chivalry and manly perfections She proh I told my beads fro the daht have foretold I cannot say She wearied me at last, for all her novelty, and I dismissed her--that is to say," he amended, "I ordered four musketeers to carry her out God pity you, Marcel, when you becohter's husband!"