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"'I give you one chance for your life,' said I quickly"

I give you one chance for your life,' said I quickly

"'And now she will wait for him in vain!'"

And now she will wait for him in vain!

"We were interrupted by a low cry"

We were interrupted by a low cry

"'The wretches!' said the tortured Count, staggering to his feet"

'The wretches!' said the tortured Count, staggering to his feet

"I leaped over the bed, and upon the man who was trying to strangle the Countess"

I leaped over the bed, and upon the man who was trying to strangle the Countess

"My father's thrusts became now so quick and continuous"

My father's thrusts became now so quick and continuous

THE BRIGHT FACE OF DANGER

CHAPTER I.

MONSIEUR HENRI DE LAUNAY SETS OUT ON A JOURNEY

If, on the first Tuesday in June, in the year 1608, anybody had asked me on what business I was riding towards Paris, and if I had answered, "To cut off the moustaches of a gentleman I have never seen, that I may toss them at the feet of a lady who has taunted me with that gentleman's superiorities,"—if I had made this reply, I should have been taken for the most foolish person on horseback in France that day. Yet the answer would have been true, though I accounted myself one of the wisest young gentlemen you might find in Anjou or any 

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