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"No, no!" she cried, veheiveas I live I e the little hope that all is not dead Your Highness, let me say that my family never knohen it is defeated, either in love or in war"

"The walls which surround the heart of a princess are black and gri A sadly

"Yet some prince of the realle blow that which a mere man could not conquer in ten lifetimes Such is the world"

"The prince h of this! I am the Princess of Graustark; you are my friend, Grenfall Lorry, and there is only a dear friendship between us," she cried, resu her merry humor so easily that he started with surprise and not a little displeasure

"And a throne," he added, s, how ever

"And a promise," she reminded him

"Fro back, afflicted with a discouragement and a determination of equal power He could see hope and hopelessness ahead

"By death!"

"No; by life! Ityour proed

They laughed, but their hearts were sad, this luckless An ould, if she could, be a woman

"It is now three o'clock--the hour when you were to have called to seeunconcernedly before him in theseat She was not afraid of hihness I reement, but it seems I was !"

"And found res all about"