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"With pleasure, Princess"

"That's char! After the opera we'll have supper at the Grand Hotel

Good-day!" said the Princess, and then in a low voice at the door, "I

leave you to your delightful duties, h Must be the scirocco My poor dear husband used to suffer

froly Adieu!"

Roma was less confused but just as nervous when she settled to her work

afresh

"I've been thinking all night long of the story you told me yesterday,"

she said "No, that way, please--eyes as before--thank you! About your

old friend, I ood man--I don't doubt that--but he made

everybody suffer Not only his father and ht to sacrifice his flesh and blood to a work for the

world?"

"When a man has taken up a mission for humanity his kindred must

reconcile themselves to that," said Rossi

"Yes, but a child, one who cannot be consulted Your friend's daughter,

for exa--her father himself at last How

could he love her? I suppose you would say he did love her"

"Love her? He lived for her She was everything on earth to hi to which he had dedicated his life"