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Lucile

By Owen Meredith [i.e. E. R. B. Lytton]
  

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XV.

He paused, for there came
O'er the cheek of the Countess a flush like the flame
That illumin'd at moments the darkness o'erhead.
With a voice faint and marr'd by emotion, she said,
‘And your pledge to another?’