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my new-strung limbs, and with it there is deliverance for thee. (Running hastily to the door.)

What dost thou mean? Where art thou running to, Edmond?

Come back, come back, child: thou shalt not leave us.

Oh, call me not back! Let me be for this one day unquestioned, and free from control, and all my life after I am subject to your will.

Knowest thou of any interest to be moved? of any means that we are ignorant of?

Yes, father; and ignorant you must be. Let me go, I beseech you: I have a thing in my head, and with you I dare no longer remain.

This is a strangely sudden thought.

When shall I see thee again? I shall be at home in an hour or two.

But I sha'n't return to you then.