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welcome back to story time with me
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natasha negovanlis we are now on to
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chapter 11 of joseph sheridan le fanu's
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carmilla
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chapter 11 the story with all my heart
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said the general with an effort and
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after a short pause in which to arrange
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his subject
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he commenced one of the strangest
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narratives i've ever heard
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my dear child was looking forward with
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great pleasure to the visit
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you had been so good as to arrange for
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her to your charming daughter
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here he made a gallant but melancholy
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bow
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in the meantime we had an invitation to
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my old friend the count carlsfeld
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whose schloss is about six leagues to
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the other side of konstein
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it was to attend the series of fets
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which you remember were given by him in
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honor of his illustrious visitor the
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grand duke charles
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yes and very splendid i believe they
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were
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said my father princely but then his
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hospitalities are quite regal
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he has aladdin's lamp the night from
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which my sorrow dates was devoted to a
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magnificent masquerade
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the grounds were thrown open the trees
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hung with coloured lamps
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there was such a display of fireworks as
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paris itself had never witnessed
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and such music music you know is my
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weakness such
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ravishing music the finest instrumental
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band perhaps in all the world
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and the finest singers who could be
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collected from all the great operas in
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europe
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as you wandered through these
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fantastically illuminated grounds
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the moonlighted chateau throwing a rosy
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light from its long rows of windows
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you would suddenly hear these ravishing
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voices stealing from the silence of some
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grove
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or rising from boats upon the lake i
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felt myself as i looked and listened
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carried back into the romance and poetry
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of my early youth
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when the fireworks ended and the ball
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beginning
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we returned to the noble suite of rooms
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that were thrown
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open to the dancers a masked ball you
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know is a beautiful sight but so
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brilliant a spectacle of the kind i
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never saw before
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it was a very aristocratic assembly i
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was myself
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almost the nobody present
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my dear child was looking quite
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beautiful she wore
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no mask her excitement and delight added
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an unspeakable charm to her features
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always
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lovely i remarked a young lady dressed
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magnificently but wearing a mask
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who appeared to me to be observing my
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ward with extraordinary interest
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i had seen her earlier in the evening in
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the great hall and again for a few
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minutes walking near us on the terrace
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under the castle windows similarly
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employed
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a lady also masked richly and gravely
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dressed
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and with a stately heir like a person of
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rank accompanied her
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as a chaperone had the young lady not
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worn a mask i could of course
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have been much more certain upon the
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question whether she was really watching
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my poor darling
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i am now well assured that she was we
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were now in one of the salons
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my poor dear child had been dancing and
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was resting a little in one of the
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chairs near the door i was standing near
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the two ladies i have mentioned had
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approached and the younger took the
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chair next to my ward while her
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companion stood beside me
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and for a little time addressed herself
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in a low tone to her charge
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availing herself of the privilege of her
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masks she turned to me
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and in the tone of an old friend and
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calling me by name
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opened a conversation with me which
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piqued my curiosity a good deal
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she referred to many scenes where she
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had met me
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at court and at distinguished houses
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she alluded to little incidents which i
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had long ceased to think of but which i
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found
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had only laid in ambiance in my memory
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for
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they instantly started into life at her
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touch
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i became more and more curious to
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ascertain who she was
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every moment she parried my attempts to
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discover very adroitly and pleasantly
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the knowledge she showed of many
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passages in my life seemed to me
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all but unaccountable and she appeared
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to take not an
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unnatural pleasure in foiling my
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curiosity and
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in seeing me flounder in my eager
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perplexity from one conjecture to
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another
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in the meantime the young lady whom her
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mother called by the odd name of malarka
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when she once or twice addressed her had
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with the same ease and grace got into
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conversation with my
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ward she introduced herself by saying
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that her mother was a very old
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acquaintance of mine
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she spoke of the agreeable audacity
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which a mask rendered practicable
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and talked like a friend she admired her
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dress
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and insinuated very prettily her
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admiration of her beauty
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she amused her with laughing criticisms
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upon the people
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who crowded the ballroom and laughed at
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my poor child's fun
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she was very witty and lively when she
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pleased and
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after a time they had grown very good
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friends and the young stranger lowered
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her mask displaying
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a remarkably beautiful face i'd never
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seen it before
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neither had my dear child but though it
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was new to us
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the features were so engaging as well as
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lovely
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that it was impossible not to feel the
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attraction powerfully
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my poor girl did so i never saw anyone
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more taken with another at first sight
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unless indeed it was the stranger
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herself who seemed quite to have lost
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her heart to her
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in the meantime availing myself for the
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license of a masquerade
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i put not a few questions to the elder
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lady you have puzzled me utterly i said
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laughing
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is that not enough won't you now consent
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to stand on equal terms and do me the
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kindness to remove your mask
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can any request be more unreasonable she
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replied
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ask a lady to yield an advantage beside
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how do you know you should recognize me
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years make changes
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as you see i said with a bow and i
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suppose a rather
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melancholy little laugh as philosophers
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tell us
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she said and how do you know that a
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sight of my face would help you
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though i should take a chance for that i
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answered
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it is vain trying to make yourself out
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an old woman your figure betrays you
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years nevertheless have passed since i
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saw you
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rather since you saw me for that is what
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i am considering
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malarka there is my daughter i could not
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then be young
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even in the opinion of people whom time
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is taught to be indulgent
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and i may not like to be compared with
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what you remember me
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you have no mask to remove you can offer
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me nothing in exchange
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my petition is your pity to remove it
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and mine to yours
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to let it stay where it is she replied
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well then at least you will tell me
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whether you are french or german you
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speak
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both languages so perfectly i don't
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think i shall tell you that general
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you intend a surprise and are
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meditating the particular point of
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attack at all events you won't deny this
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i said that being honored by your
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permission to converse i ought to know
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how to address you
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shall i say madame lacomtes
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she laughed and she would no doubt have
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met me with another evasion
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if indeed i can treat any occurrence in
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an interview every circumstance of which
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was pre-arranged as i now believe
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with the profoundest cunning as liable
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to be modified by accident
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as to that she began but she was
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interrupted almost as she opened her
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lips
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by a gentleman dressed in black who
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looked particularly elegant and
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distinguished
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with this drawback that his face was the
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most deadly pale i
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ever saw except in death he was in no
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masquerade
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in the plain evening dress of a
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gentleman and he said without a smile
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but with a courtly and unusually low bow
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will the madame la contest permit me to
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say a very few words which may interest
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her
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the lady turned quickly to him and
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touched her lip in a token of silence
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she then said to me keep my place for me
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general
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i shall return when i have said a few
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words
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and with this injunction playfully given
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she walked a little aside with a
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gentleman in black and talked for some
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minutes apparently very earnestly
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then they walked away slowly together in
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the crowd and i lost them for some
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minutes
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i spent the interval in cudgeling my
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brains for a conjecture as to the
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identity of the lady who seemed to
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remember me so kindly
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and i was thinking of turning about and
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joining in the conversation between my
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pretty ward and the countess's daughter
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and trying whether by the time she
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returned i might not have a surprise in
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store for her
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by having her name title chateau and
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estates at my fingers ends
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but at this moment she returned
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accompanied by the pale men in black who
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said
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i shall return and inform madame
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lacontes when her carriage is at the
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door
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he withdrew with a bow and that's
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chapter 11.
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tune in for chapter 12.
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