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Rh "Well, Albert," said Franz, "do you feel much inclined to join the pees! Come, answer frankly."

"No," returned Albert. "But I am really glad to have seen such a sight; and I understand what M. le Comte said—that when you have

once habituated yourself to a similar spectacle, it is the only one that causes you any emotion"

"Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study characters," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage