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hello hello and welcome back to
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quarantine story time with me
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natasha negovanlis continuing the
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reading of joseph sheridan li fanu's
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gothic vampire novella carmella
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chapter 12 a petition
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then we are to lose madame lacomtes but
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i hope only for a few hours i said with
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a low bow
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it may be that only or it may be a few
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weeks
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it was very unlucky he's speaking to me
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just now as he did
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do you now know me i assured her i did
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not
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you shall know me she said but not at
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present
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we are older and better friends than
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perhaps
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you suspect i cannot yet declare myself
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i shall in three weeks pass your
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beautiful schloss about which i have
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been making inquiries
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i shall then look in upon you for an
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hour or two
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and renew friendship which i never think
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of without a thousand pleasant
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recollections
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this moment a piece of news has reached
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me like a thunderbolt
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i must now set out and travel by a
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devious route nearly a hundred miles
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with all the dispatch i can possibly
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make
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my perplexities multiply i am only
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deterred by the compulsory reserve i
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practice as to my name
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for making a very singular request of
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you my poor child has not quite
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recovered her strength
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her horse fell with her at a hunt which
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she had ridden out to witness
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her nerves have not yet recovered the
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shock and our physician says that she
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must on no account exert herself for
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some time to come
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we came here in consequence by very easy
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stages
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hardly six leagues a day i must now
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travel
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day and night on a mission of life and
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death a mission the critical
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and momentous nature of which i shall be
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able to explain to you when we meet
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as i hope we shall in a few weeks
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without the necessity of any concealment
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she went on to make her petition and it
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was in the tone of a person from whom
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such a request amounted to conferring
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rather than seeking a favor
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this was only in manner and as it seemed
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quite unconsciously
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than the terms in which it was expressed
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nothing could be more deprecatory
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it was simply that i would consent to
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take charge of her daughter during her
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absence
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this was all things considered a strange
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not to say an audacious request
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she in some sort disarmed me by stating
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and admitting
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everything that could be urged against
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it and throwing herself entirely upon my
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chivalry
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at the same moment by a fatality that
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seems to have predetermined
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all that happened my poor child came to
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my side
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and in an undertone besought me to
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invite her new friend malarka to pay us
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a visit
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she had just been sounding her and
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thought if her mama would allow her she
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would like it extremely
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at another time i should have told her
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to wait a little until at least we knew
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who they were
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but i had not a moment to think in the
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two ladies assailed me together
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and i must confess the refined and
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beautiful face of the young lady
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about which there was something
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extremely engaging
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as well as the elegance and fire of high
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birth
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determined me and quite overpowered
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i submitted and undertook too easily the
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care of the young lady
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whom her mother called melaka the
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countess beckoned to her daughter who
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listened with grave attention while she
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told her
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in general terms how suddenly and
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preemptorially she had been summoned
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and also of the arrangement she had made
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for her under my care
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adding that i was one of her earliest
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and most valued friends
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i made of course such speeches as the
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case seemed to call for
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and found myself on reflection in a
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position which i did not have like
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the gentleman in black returned and very
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ceremoniously conducted the lady from
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the room
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the demeanor of this gentleman was such
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as to impress me with the conviction
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that the countess was a lady of very
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much more importance than her modest
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title
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alone might have led me to assume her
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last charge to me was that
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no attempt was to be made to learn more
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about her than i might have already
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guessed
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until her return our distinguished house
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whose guest she was
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knew her reasons but here she said
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neither i nor my daughter could safely
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remain for
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more than a day i removed my mask
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imprudently for a moment about an hour
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ago and too late
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i fancied you saw me so i resolved to
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seek an opportunity of talking a little
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to you
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had i found that you had seen me i would
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have thrown myself on your high sense of
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honor to keep my secret some weeks
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as it is i am satisfied that you did not
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see me
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but if you now suspect or on reflection
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should suspect who i am
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i commit myself in like manner entirely
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to your honor
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my daughter will observe the same
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secrecy and i well know that you will
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from time to time remind her
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lest she should thoughtlessly disclose
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it
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she whispered a few words to her
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daughter kissed her hurriedly twice and
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went away
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accompanied by the pale gentleman in
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black and disappeared in the crowd
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in the next room said malarka there is a
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window that looks upon the whole door
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i should like to see the last of mama
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and to kiss my hand to her
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we scented of course and accompanied her
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to the window
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we looked out and saw a handsome
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old-fashioned carriage
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with a troop of couriers and footmen we
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saw the slim figure of the pale
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gentleman in black as he held a thick
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velvet cloak
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and placed it about her shoulders and
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threw the hood over her head
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she nodded to him and just touched his
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hand with hers
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he bowed low repeatedly as the door
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closed and the carriage began to move
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she's gone said melaka with a sigh
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she is gone i repeated to myself for the
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first time in the hurried moments that
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had lapped since my consent reflecting
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upon the folly of my act
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she did not look up said the young lady
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plaintively
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the countess had taken off her mask
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perhaps and did not care to show her
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face
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i said and she could not know that you
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were in the window
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she sighed and looked in my face she was
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so beautiful that i relented
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i was sorry i had a moment repented of
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my hospitality and i determined to make
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her amends for the unavowed turlishness
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of my reception
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the young lady replacing her mask joined
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my ward in persuading me to return to
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the grounds
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where the concert was soon to be renewed
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we did so and walked up and down the
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terrace that lies under the castle
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windows
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malarka became very intimate with us and
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amused us with lively descriptions and
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stories of most of the great people whom
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we saw upon the terrace
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i liked her more and more every minute
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her gossip without being ill-natured was
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extremely diverting to me
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who had been so long out of the great
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world i thought what life
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she would give to our sometimes lonely
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evenings at home
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this bowl was not over until morning sun
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had almost reached the horizon
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it pleased the grand duke to dance till
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then so loyal people could not go away
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or
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think of bed we had just got through a
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crowded saloon when my ward asked me
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what had become of malarka
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i thought she had been by her side and
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she fancied she was by mine
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the fact was we had lost her all my
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efforts to find her were vain
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i feared that she had mistaken in the
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confusion of a momentary separation from
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us
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other people for her new friends and had
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possibly pursued and lost them in the
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extensive grounds which were thrown open
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to us
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now in its full force i recognized a new
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folly
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in my having undertaken the charge of a
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young lady without so much as knowing
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her name
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and fettered as i was by promises of the
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reasons for imposing which i knew
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nothing i could not even point my
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inquiries by saying that
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the missing young lady was the daughter
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of the countess who had taken her
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departure a few hours before
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morning broke it was clear daylight
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before i gave up my search
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it was not until near two o'clock next
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day that we heard anything of my missing
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charge
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at about that time a servant knocked at
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my niece's door to say that she had been
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earnestly requested by a young lady
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who appeared to be in great distress to
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make out where she could find the
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general baron spielsdorf and the young
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lady
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his daughter in whose charge she had
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been left by her mother
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there could be no doubt notwithstanding
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this light inaccuracy
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that our young friend had turned up and
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so she had
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wood to heaven we had lost her she told
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my poor child to account for her having
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failed to recover us for so long
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very late she said she had got to the
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housekeeper's bedroom in despair of
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finding us
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and had then fallen into a deep sleep
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which long as it was had
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hardly sufficed to recruit her strength
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after the fatigues of the ball
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that day melaka came home with us i was
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only too happy
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after all to have secured so charming a
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companion for my dear
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girl and that was chapter 12.
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i hope you enjoyed it and tune in for
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chapter 13.
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