Had I found Roxalanne the sort of woman that I had looked to find - the only sort that I had ever known - then matters had been easy. I had set myself in cold blood, and by such wiles as I knew, to win such affection as might be hers to bestow; and I would have married her in much the same spirit as a man performs any other of the necessary acts of his lifetime and station. I would have told her that I was Bardelys, and to the woman that I had expected to find there had been no difficulty in making the confession. But to Roxalanne! Had there been no wager, I might have confessed my identity. As it was, I found it impossible to avow the one without the other. For the sweet innocence that invested her gentle, trusting soul must have given pause to any but the most abandoned of men before committing a vileness in connection with her.
We were much together during that week, and just as day by day, hour by hour, my passion grew and grew until it absorbed me utterly, so, too, did it seem to me that it awakened in her a responsive note.
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He laughed at the
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You know this lady
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Then followed a pause
She laughed a little
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With those that remained
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It will also be
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All this may betide
From what the King
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Their eyes indeed for
What did you do
It was pity that
You will understand these
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He looked at me
I think now that
He carried in his
He walked with an
Blood of La Fosse
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Aye it had won
Meanwhile the Vicomte goes
Nor did he stop
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Can you deny it
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Why do we halt
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It will also be
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I paused as one
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Can you deny it
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Surprise was in the
As you may remember
The moonlight bathed her
By spurring and coaxing
See she cried to
But I heeded these
I shall pray God
Too late I saw
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Let me go I
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And much as dead
Roxalanne sat on and
At length unable longer
But tell me Monsieur
Even now across the
But I held the
We are here upon
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