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THE BROTHER OF ST.

MAGLOIRE.
As the exertion of power is for the most part pleasing, so the exercise of that which a woman possesses over a man is especially pleasant.

When in addition a risk of no ordinary kind has been run, and the happy issue has been barely expected--above all when the momentary gain seems an augury of final victory--it is impossible that a feeling akin to exultation should not arise in the mind, however black the horizon, and however distant the fair haven.
The situation in which Count Hannibal left Mademoiselle de Vrillac will be remembered.

She had prevailed over him; but in return he had bowed her to the earth, partly by subtle threats, and partly by sheer savagery.
He had left her weeping, with the words "Madame de Tavannes" ringing doom in her ears, and the dark phantom of his will pointing onward to an inevitable future.