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 you to return my love; but if you continue much longer to disdain it, I shall not hesitate to surrender your father to the fate he merits."

"He is not, he is not in your power (exclaimed Madeline); you have said so but for the purpose of awaking my fears, from a hope of being able to take a base advantage of them."

"Well, though you doubt my words, I suppose you will not doubt the evidence of your own eyes."

Madeline trembled; the faint hope which had just darted into her mind, of his assertion relative to her father being merely for the purpose of terrifying her, now utterly died away.

"I will this instant, if you please (said D'Alembert), conduct you to the chamber of your father; but ere I take you to it, I must prepare you for the situation in which you will find him."