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At last he committed the girl to the old nobleman's charge and returned to the Emperor. The marquise received Barbara with the assurance that she had found in her a warm, nay, a maternal friend. If this beautiful creature was not alreadv the object of the Emperor's love, the experienced old woman told herself, she must very soon become so.

In this room, clothed with the sable hue of mourning, he felt that alreadv, while on earth, he had fallen into its all-levelling power. Here his mind, like that of a dying man's, grasped for brief intervals what life had offered and what awaited him beyond the confines of this short earthly existence, in eternity.

At last he committed the girl to the old nobleman's charge and returned to the Emperor. The marquise received Barbara with the assurance that she had found in her a warm, nay, a maternal friend. If this beautiful creature was not alreadv the object of the Emperor's love, the experienced old woman told herself, she must very soon become so.

In this room, clothed with the sable hue of mourning, he felt that alreadv, while on earth, he had fallen into its all-levelling power. Here his mind, like that of a dying man's, grasped for brief intervals what life had offered and what awaited him bevond the confines of this short earthly existence, in eternity.

At last he committed the girl to the old nobleman's charge and returned to the Emperor. The marquise received Barbara with the assurance that she had found in her a warm, nay, a maternal friend. If this beautiful creature was not alreadv the object of the Emperor's love, the experienced old woman told herself, she must very soon become so.

In this room, clothed with the sable hue of mourning, he felt that alreadv, while on earth, he had fallen into its all-levelling power. Here his mind, like that of a dying man's, grasped for brief intervals what life had offered and what awaited him beyond the confines of this short earthly existence, in eternity.

Hence, whoever is master of this drum may become superior to all the monarchs of the present day, for, on his beating it in the manner alreadv described, when he is pressed for help, all the princes of the genii, with their sons, will appear also their troops and followers, ready to obey his commands.