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He is, I warrant, but lying perdu in some neighbouring tent." "By my crown of lilies, and my sceptre of a specially good water-reed," said Nectabanus, "your Majesty is mistaken, He is nearer at hand than you wot he lieth ensconced there behind that canvas partition." "And within hearing of each word we have said!" exclaimed the Queen, in her turn violently surprised and agitated.
Passerose put an end to it by crying out: "Would not one say ha! ha! that we were the most ha! ha! unfortunate people ha! ha! in the universe! Look at our poor Ourson, wet as a water-reed, bathing himself in his own and Violette's tears. Courage, children, courage and happiness! See, we are all alive, thanks to Ourson."
The recollection of the forlorn and loveless years stirred into consciousness by the unexpected confrontation bent her as the high wind bends the water-reed. "My father!" she whispered. "My own father!" Queerly the room and its objects receded and vanished; and there intervened a series of mental pictures that so long as she lived would ever be recurring.
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