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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XVII
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She doated on a royalty crowned with the Saint's halo, that swam down to us to lift us through holy human showers.

She listened to Mr.Barmby, hearing few sentences, lending his eloquence all she felt: he rolled forth notes of a minster organ, accordant with the devotional service she was holding mutely.

Mademoiselle upon St.Louis: 'Worthy to be named King of Kings!' swept her to a fount of thoughts, where the thoughts are not yet shaped, are yet in the breast of the mother emotions.

Louise de Seilles had prepared her to be strangely and deeply moved.

The girl had a heart of many strings, of high pitch, open to be musical to simplest wandering airs or to the gales.


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