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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER XXI
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He drew her eagerly into the library.
"Look here," he said, "Forrest declares that he is going.

He is upstairs now packing his things." "Your brother," the Princess answered, "scarcely left him much alternative." "That's all very well," Cecil answered, "but if he goes I go.

I am not going to be left here alone." The Princess looked at him, and the colour came into his cheeks.

It is never well for a man when he sees such a look upon a woman's face.
"It isn't that I'm afraid," Cecil declared.

"I can stand any ordinary danger, but I am not going to be left shut up here alone, with the whole responsibility upon me.


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