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Count Hannibal

CHAPTER XVIII
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Yet not quite, nor wholly.

For when in his walk he came a little nearer to her, a chill perspiration broke out on her brow, and shudderings crept over her; and when he passed farther from her--and then only, it seemed--she breathed again.

But the change lay beneath the surface, and cheated the eye.

Into her attitude, as she sat, her hands clasped on her lap, her eyes fixed, came no apparent change or shadow of movement.
Suddenly, with a dull shock, she became aware that he was speaking.
"There was need of haste," he said, his tone strangely low and free from emotion, "for I am under bond to leave Paris to-morrow for Angers, whither I bear letters from the King.

And as matters stood, there was no one with whom I could leave you.


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