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The Prisoner of Zenda

CHAPTER 5
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I saw the Marshal and Sapt dimly, and dimly the throng of gorgeously robed priests who awaited me.

And my eyes were still dim as I walked up the great nave, with the pealing of the organ in my ears.

I saw nothing of the brilliant throng that filled it, I hardly distinguished the stately figure of the Cardinal as he rose from the archiepiscopal throne to greet me.

Two faces only stood out side by side clearly before my eyes--the face of a girl, pale and lovely, surmounted by a crown of the glorious Elphberg hair (for in a woman it is glorious), and the face of a man, whose full-blooded red cheeks, black hair, and dark deep eyes told me that at last I was in presence of my brother, Black Michael.

And when he saw me his red cheeks went pale all in a moment, and his helmet fell with a clatter on the floor.


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