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And I shall neversee you again, Anthony!" She gave him a dreadful look. "Oh, my poor boy, my poor love--'I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, POLIXENA!'" He thought she had turned light-headed, and advanced to her withsoothing words; but she held him quietly at arm's length, and as hegazed he read the truth in her face. He fell back from her, and a sob broke from him as he bowed his head onhis hands. "Only, for God's sake, have the money ready, or there may be foul playhere, " she said. As she spoke there w...as a great tramping of steps outside and a burst ofvoices on the threshold. "It is all a lie, " she gasped out, "about my marriage, and the Marquess, and the Ambassador, and the Senator--but not, oh, not about your dangerin this place--or about my love, " she breathed to him. And as the keyrattled in the door she laid her lips on his brow. The key rattled, and the door swung open--but the black-cassockedgentleman who stepped in, though a priest indeed, was no votary ofidolatrous rites, but that sound orthodox divine, the Reverend OziasMounce, looking very much perturbed at his surroundings, and very muchon the alert for the Scarlet Woman.
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