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Tristan, whose face became more sinister with every moment, addressed the recluse,-"What have you to say to that?"
She tried to ainst this new incident, "That I do not know, neur; that I may have been mistaken I believe, in fact, that she crossed the water"
"That is in the opposite direction," said the provost, "and it is not very likely that she would wish to re-enter the city, where she was being pursued You are lying, old woman"
"And then," added the first soldier, "there is no boat either on this side of the stream or on the other"
"She swaround foot by foot
"Do women swi!" repeated Tristan angrily "I have a good mind to abandon that sorceress and take you A quarter of an hour of torture will, perchance, draw the truth from your throat Come! You are to follow us"
She seized on these words with avidity
"As you please,Takethat tihter will make her escape"
"'S death!" said the provost, "what an appetite for the rack! I understand not this uard stepped out of the ranks, and addressing the provost,-"Mad in sooth, ypsy, it was not her fault, for she loves not the gypsies I have been of the watch these fifteen years, and I hear her every evening cursing the Bohemian women with endless imprecations If the one of e are in pursuit is, as I suppose, the little dancer with the goat, she detests that one above all the rest"
Gudule made an effort and said,-"That one above all"
The unanieant's words to the provost Tristan l'Her from the recluse, turned his back on her, and with unspeakable anxiety she beheld him direct his course slowly towards his horse
"Coain on the quest I shall not sleep until that gypsy is hanged"
But he still hesitated for so his horse Gudule palpitated between life and death, as she beheld hi which instinctively feels that the lair of the beast is close to hith he shook his head and leaped into his saddle Gudule's horribly compressed heart now dilated, and she said in a low voice, as she cast a glance at her daughter, whom she had not ventured to look at while they were there, "Saved!"