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The Alkahest

CHAPTER XII
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"If Merkstus holds them all, you can at least save the interest.

I will bring you the remaining seventy thousand francs.

My poor uncle left me quite a large sum in ducats, which are easy to carry secretly." "Oh!" she said, "bring them at night; we can hide them when my father is asleep.

If he knew that I had money, he might try to force it from me.
Oh, Emmanuel, think what it is to distrust a father!" she said, weeping and resting her forehead against the young man's heart.
This sad, confiding movement, with which the young girl asked protection, was the first expression of a love hitherto wrapped in melancholy and restrained within a sphere of grief: the heart, too full, was forced to overflow beneath the pressure of this new misery.
"What can we do; what will become of us?
He sees nothing, he cares for nothing,--neither for us nor for himself.

I know not how he can live in that garret, where the air is stifling." "What can you expect of a man who calls incessantly, like Richard III., 'My kingdom for a horse' ?" said Emmanuel.


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