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"Shall I swear to you, sir?" asked Maximilian

"Yes," said the paralytic with the sareat importance to an oath He extended his hand

"I swear to you, onthe course I aht," said the old man

"Now," said Morrel, "do you wishMademoiselle Valentine?"

"Yes"

Morrel n that he was ready to obey "But," said he, "first allow hter did just now" Noirtier's expression could not be understood The young man pressed his lips on the same spot, on the old man's forehead, where Valentine's had been Then he bowed a second time and retired He found outside the door the old servant, to who a dark passage, which led to a little door opening on the garden, soon found the spot where he had entered, with the assistance of the shrubs gained the top of the wall, and by his ladder was in an instant in the clover-field where his cabriolet was still waiting for hihly wearied by so ht in the Rue Meslay, threw himself on his bed and slept soundly