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"You followaccents; "you

allow me too scanty room to draw my breath Do you knoill be the

end of this?" "I knohat must be the end," he replied

"Tellwith

my own Mine is a very dark one"

"There can be but one result, and that soon," answered the model "You

must throw off your present mask and assume another You must vanish out

of the scene: quit Rome with me, and leave no trace whereby to follow

you It is in my power, as you well know, to co You are aware of the penalty of a refusal"

"Not that penalty hich you would terrify rievous" "What is that other?"

he inquired "Death! simply death!" she answered "Death," said her

persecutor, "is not so si and ith life Sensitive and irritable as your spirit

is, these many months of trouble, this latter thraldom in which I hold

you, have scarcely irlhood