[The Hosts of the Air by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hosts of the Air CHAPTER XI 14/41
So she bids me tell you to go away.
It is easy to escape from here to the Italian frontier.
She would not have you lose your life for her." "Is it because my life is of more value to her than that of any other man? Oh, tell me, I pray you ?" Another of her rare smiles passed over the grim face of the woman. "It is a question that Mademoiselle Julie alone can answer," she said. "But when she went to her room she wept a little and her tears were not those of sorrow." "Oh, then, Suzanne, she is indeed glad that I am here.
Tell her that I came for her, and that I will not go away until she goes too." "She is in no great danger here; she is a prisoner, but they treat her as a guest, one of high degree." "Auersperg would force her to marry him." Suzanne smiled once more, but gravely. "The prince would marry her," she said, "and he is not the only one who wishes to do so.
But fear not.
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