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Next day the journals were full of the assassin Many things were

incomprehensible in her character, unless you approached it with the

right key Young and with a fatal beauty, fantastic, audacious, a great

coquette, always giving out a perfume of seduction and feminine ruin,

she was one of those woue, and her last victim had been her first friend

Once ain

The Count de Raymond returned to say that in corners of the cafés people

spoke of the Baron as a dead dog, and said that if Donna Roood act, and God would reward her

Parliament opened after its Easter vacation, and the Count de Rayalleries and

lobbies were filled, and there was suppressed but intense excitened, and that the King, as in

despair, had been unable to forht

was heard to say that Donna Roma had done more for the people in a day

than the Opposition could have accoitators on the Left have any qualities of statesmen, now's their

time to show it," he said But ould Parliament say about the dead

man? The President entered and took his chair After the minutes had

been read there was a moment's silence Not a as uttered, not a

voice was raised "Let us pass on to the next business," said the

President

The assizes happened to be in session, and the opening of the trial was

reported on the following day When the prisoner was asked whether she