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A Thorny Path [Per Aspera]
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CHAPTER XV
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He must come here and receive the imperial representatives with me.

Then have my couch quietly removed and the banquet served at once.

O Coeranus, you can not imagine the misery I am thus spared!" "Berenike!" said the senator, in a warning voice, and he laid his finger on his lips.

Then turning to the young supplicant, he said to her in a tone of regret: "So your walk is for nothing, fair maid.

If you are as sensible as you are pretty, you will understand that it is too much to ask any one to stand between the lion and the prey which has roused his ire." The lady, however, did not heed the caution which her brother-in-law intended to convey.


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