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pardon to the Russian, and always keeping alive in Marsa a hatred of all
the woman whom he adored and whose heart.html">heart.html">heart he could not win, and the girl,
treated him with the cold respect one shows to a stranger.
Not long after their arrival in Paris, a serious heart trouble attacked
daughter; and, in a sort of supreme confession, he openly asked his
existence, is the remorse of my whole life. But I am dying.html">dying of the love.html">love
pardoned me?"
For the first time, perhaps, Marsa's lips, trembling with emotion, then
sought those of her mother, who bowed her head.html">head in assent.
"And you," murmured the dying Prince, "will you forgive me, Tisza?"
The Tzigana saw.html">saw again her native village in flames, her brothers dead,
pillows, erect, with sabre drawn, crying: "Courage! Charge! Forward!"
Then she saw herself dragged almost beneath a horse's hoofs, cast into a
rest of the victor's spoils, and immured within Russian walls. She felt
suppliant, pitiful love was hideous to her.
She made a step toward the dying man as if to force herself to whisper,
to her heart, almost stifling her, and she paused, going no farther, and
and who, after raising his pale face from the pillow, let his head fall
CHAPTER VII
THE STORY OF MARSA
Prince Tchereteff left his whole fortune.html">fortune to Marsa Laszlo, leaving her in
had been confiscated by the Czar, and who lived in Paris half imbecile
where he had been sent on some pretext or other, no one knew exactly the
that Czar whose will is the sole law.html">law, a law above laws--to permit Prince
The state would gladly have seized upon the fortune, as the Prince had no
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