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But Nora was not recalling the happy scenes of her childhood; indeed, no;

she was still threatening Paris Once there, she would not lack for

reprisals To have played on her pity! To have made a lure of her tender

concern for the unfortunate! Never would she forgive such baseness And

only a little while ago she had been as happy as the nightingale to which

they coed any one; she had been kindness

and thoughtfulness to all hoers tightened round the bars She ht have posed as Dido

when she learned that the noble Æneas was dead War, oe to the moths

who fluttered about her head hereafter!

Ah, but had she been happy? Her hands slid down the bars Her expression

changed The ht in her eyes di, somewhere, had come weariness, and with this came

weakness, and finally, tears

She heard the key turn in the lock They had never come so early before

She was astonished to see that her jailer did not close the door as usual

He put down the breakfast tray on the table There was tea and toast and

fruit

"Mademoiselle, there has been a terrible mistake," said the man humbly

"Ah! So you have found that out?" she cried