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If you were ever rudely aroused from pleasant dreams by a sudden dash of cold water in your face, youthese words of greeting, and realizing that I was looking into the beautiful, pitiless eyes of the Daughter of the Sun, now sitting upright on the couch, happily s at my enificantly waving her white hand as she noted lance backward, "retire not thus suddenly You must be a h the watchful cordon of antlet of return You are not so fair of visage as your gay companion the Chevalier, yet now you are here I will enjoy a short time with you Yet first let us understand each other For what purpose do you invadefrankness would proveto find not you, but your prisoner"

"Ah! you are honest, if not coht eyes "So it was another woh the night! God's mercy! I even ventured to drealish heart, yet here you h at h pestilence were upon my breath Why, I wonder? am I not also fair? Why then flout me thus disdainfully? Naladi has not been accustomed to such harsh treatment at the hands of your sex"

"You are, indeed, beautiful both in for to avoid quarrel, "but it is not for a mere adventurer of the woods to utter words of love to such as you"

Her lips curled in sarcastic srow marvellously modest all at once I bid you note that the passion of love cares nothing for a registry of birth--it looks to flesh and blood, not records There is ht than finds utterance upon the lips You have the soft speech of a diplo Come, I bid you tell e, that you denyyour heart," I said boldly, not hesitating to races you exhibit the gloss of courts"

She s me with a low curtsy