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"You do not appreciate entleman"

"What is to becouish of fear "I see now--I see plainly! It was Gabriel, and he would have done as you say" A shudder ran through her figure and he tenderly whispered in her ear: "The danger is past He can do no hness Were I positive that he is the ht"

Her eyes closed happily under his gaze, her hand dropped timidly from his arm and a sweet sense of security filled her soul

"I am not afraid," shenearer

"Because God can bless with the sa her lashes again and looking into his eyes with a love at last unives me a man to love and denies me happiness He makes of h you, He thwarts a villain; through you, He crushes the innocent More than ever, I thank you for couided by the God who loves and despises erly, but she interrupted

"You should not ask anything, for I have said I cannot pay I owe to you all I have, but cannot pay the debt"

"I shall not again forget," he murmured

"To-morrow, if you like, I will take you over the castle and let you see the squalor in which I exist,--my throne room, my chapel, my banquet hall, my ball room, my conservatory, my sepulchre You may say it is wealth, but I shall call it poverty," she said, after they had watched the black monastery cut a square corner from the moon's circle

"To-morrow, if you will be so kind"

"Perhaps I may be poorer after I have saved Graustark," she said

"I would to God I could save you from that!" he said

"I would to God you could," she said Her ht face to his "I hear your friend's laugh out there in the darkness It is delightfully infectious"