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Maezli

CHAPTER II
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I am really as sure as anything that it was Leonore's child.

She is only an hour's distance away from you and is probably going to stay in this neighborhood for a few weeks.

I wanted to bring you this news as a present." Mrs.Maxa first could not say a word from astonishment.
"Are you quite sure, Philip ?" she asked, wishing for an affirmation.
"How could you become so sure that the child you saw was Leonore's little daughter ?" "First of all, because nobody who has known Leonore can ever forget what she looked like.

The child is exactly like her and looks at one just the way Leonore used to do.

Secondly, the child's name was Leonore, too.
Thirdly, she had the same brown curls rippling down her shoulders that her mother had, and she spoke with a voice as soft and charming.


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