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"You may breathe the saht love?"

"Is a man the only excuse for love?" she asked "If so, then I must say that I breathe and eat and drink and sleep--and that is all"

"Pardon me, but sohed--"you will neither breathe, nor eat, nor sleep except with hiainst a ainst a princess?" she asked, as she leaned against the casement

"It depends on the"--he paused "the princess, I should say"

"Alas! There is one more fresh responsibility acquired It see depends on the princess," she said, reat deal--a very great deal--depends on circuenslocker it wouldn't have been necessary for the enslocker because a ravely that he smiled "I ithout a title because it was more womanly than to be a 'freak,' as I should have been had every man, woman and child looked upon h your land for the purpose of exhibiting myself, but to learn and unlearn"

"I re," he observed

"It was money well spent, as subsequent events have proved I shall never regret the spending of that half gavvo Was it not the ely responsible, but I am inclined to believe that a certain desire on my part would have found a ithout the assistance of the coin You don't kno persistent an American can be"

"Would you have persisted had you knoas a princess?" she asked

"Well, I can hardly tell about that, but you must remember I didn't knoho or what you were"

"Would you have come to Graustark had you knoas its princess?"

"I'll adenslocker"

"A mere woman"

"I will not consent to the word 'mere' What would you think of a man who came half-way across the earth for the sake of a reat deal of curiosity," she responded, coolly

"And not much sense There is but one woman a man would do so much for, and she could not be a leamed as he hurled this bold conclusion at her