Do you hear, my girl?
Go to Gentilis, and see you let him kiss you twice! And see we see and hear it.

And have a care! Have a care! Or next time your modesty may not escape so easily! To him at once, and----" "No!" The cry came from Claude.

He was on his feet, his face on fire.
"No!" he repeated passionately.
"No ?" "Not while I am here! Not under compulsion," the young man cried.

"Shame on you!" He turned to the others, generous wrath in his face.

"Shame on you to torture a woman so--a woman alone! And you three to one!" Basterga's face grew dark.