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The Trampling of the Lilies

CHAPTER I
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"A trifling affair 'twixt M.la Boulaye and me, with which I will not trouble you." "It is not nothing, my lord," cried La Boulaye, his voice vibrating oddly.

"It is that I love your daughter and that I have told her of it." He was in a very daring mood that morning.
The Marquis glanced at him in dull amazement.

Then a flush crept into his sallow cheeks and mounted to his brow.

An inarticulate grunt came from his thick lips.
"Canaille!" he exclaimed, through set teeth.

"Can you have presumed so far ?" He carried a riding-switch, and he seemed to grasp it now in a manner peculiarly menacing.


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