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"So young," said Albert, forgetting at the moment the Count's command that he should ask no questions of the slave herself, "is it possible that you can have knohat suffering is except by name?"

Haidee turned her eyes towards Monte Cristo, who, n,is ever so firmly impressed on the mind as the memory of our early childhood, and with the exception of the two scenes I have just described to you, all ht with deepest sadness"

"Speak, speak, signora," said Albert, "I aht and interest to all you say"

Haidee answered his remark with a melancholy smile "You wish me, then, to relate the history ofyou to do so," replied Albert

"Well, I was but four years old when one night I was suddenly awakened by my mother We were in the palace of Yanina; she snatchedmy eyes I saw hers filled with tears She took an to cry too 'Hush, child!' said she At other times in spite of maternal endearments or threats, I had with a child's caprice been accusto as much as I felt inclined; but on this occasion there was an intonation of such extreme terror in my mother's voice when she enjoinedas soon as her coiven She bore e staircase; around us were all s, orna away in the greatest distraction

"Behind the wouns and pistols, and dressed in the costuain beco and o pale at thefile of slaves and women only half-aroused from sleep, or at least so they appeared to me, as myself scarcely awake Here and there on the walls of the staircase, were reflected gigantic shadohich treht of the pine-torches till they seemed to reach to the vaulted roof above

"'Quick!' said a voice at the end of the gallery This voicein its effect the wind passing over a field of wheat, by its superior strength forcing every ear to yield obeisance As for me, it made me tremble This voice was that of my father He ca in his hand the carbine which your e on the shoulder of his favorite Selim, and he drove us all before hi flock My father," said Haidee, raising her head, "was that illustrious man known in Europe under the name of Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and before whom Turkey trembled"