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The Tragic Comedians

CHAPTER VI
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So, you have come, you have found me! This time if I let you slip, may I be stamped slack-fingered!' '"Two wishes make a will," you say.' He answered her with one of his bursts of brightness.
Her having sought him he read for the frank surrender which he was ready to match with a loyal devotion to his captive.

Her coming cleared everything.
Clotilde introduced him to her friends, and he was enrolled a member of the party.

His appearance was that of a man to whom the sphinx has whispered.

They ascended to the topmost of the mountain stages, to another caravanserai of tourists, whence the singular people emerge in morning darkness night-capped and blanketed, and behold the great orb of day at his birth--he them.
Walking slowly beside Clotilde on the mountain way, Alvan said: 'Two wishes! Mine was in your breast.

You wedded yours to it.


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