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The Trampling of the Lilies

CHAPTER XX
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We will hope that as yet the way is open to me, and that I shall be permitted to go and to return unmolested.

In such a case the rest is easy--except that you will have to suffer my company as far as the frontier." It was Mademoiselle who accompanied him to the door.
"Monsieur," she said, in a voice that shook with the sincere intensity of her feelings, "think me not ungrateful that I have said so little.
But your act has overwhelmed me.

It is so truly noble, that to offer you thanks that are but words, seems tome little short of a banality." "Tut!" he laughed.

"I have not yet done half.

It will be time to thank me when we are out of France." "And you speak so lightly of leaving France ?" she cried.


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