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"You will return?"

"If I may--when you are less occupied"

I was acquainted with nearly all the guests and was stopped a dozen

times on

with a knot of lanced backward towards the princess with

each pause I made, I always met her eyes fixed upon h she was engaged with the people who

forroup around her

I did not seek the prince, after all I turned aside realizing that I

would rather be alone with the pleasurable thrill which still pulsed in

my veins, than to crush it out with society talk, which was h the roos with acquaintances, and at

last earden which was a miniature forest

of shrubbery, palhted by lalobes,

and it was traversed by paths that were carpeted with Eastern rugs, and

bordered by alluring nooks so daintily arranged and so suggestive of

all things sentiarden was an

Oriental paradise, blooht with a sh he

were alone--for it set hireater there was a furious snowstor and shrieking past the house, and the rattle of

the snow as it hurled itself into frag