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Her body, mutilated by the dagger-thrusts of her executioner, told of the fury with which she had disputed a life which Henri had made precious to her. She lay stretched on the floor, and in her death-throes had bitten the ankles of Madame de San-Real, who still held in her hand her dagger, dripping blood.
"If you do not love her well, if you give her the least pain, I will kill you." such was the sense of that brief gaze. De Marsay was escorted, with a care almost obsequious, along the dimly lit corridor, at the end of which he issued by a secret door into the garden of the Hotel San-Real.
If what you want of me doesn't transgress the limits of my conscience and my official duties, you understand! I am your man." "You are an honest fellow," said Laurent, shaking his hand.... "Paquita Valdes is, no doubt, the mistress of the Marquis de San-Real, the friend of King Ferdinand.
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