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Count Hannibal

CHAPTER II
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And for this time she shall, but, All! All! Even Foucauld, there! Do you mark him.

He's sorting the cards.

Do you see him--as he will be to-morrow, with the slit in his throat and his teeth showing?
Why, God!" his voice rising almost to a scream, "the candles by him are burning blue!" And with a shaking hand, his face convulsed, the young King clutched his companion's arm, and pinched it.
Count Hannibal shrugged his shoulders, but answered nothing.
"D'you think we shall see them afterwards ?" Charles resumed, in a sharp, eager whisper.

"In our dreams, man?
Or when the watchman cries, and we awake, and the monks are singing lauds at St.Germain, and--and the taper is low ?" Tavannes' lip curled.

"I don't dream, sire," he answered coldly, "and I seldom wake.


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