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 all in my power: "I swear to you that I will not destroy your Lady, or your Lord, I do not mean to murder them."

"What then is your intention?" asked the Count. "Why break in upon us like a midnight robber?"

"I have no leisure to answer questions," said I, interrupting him, 'therefore you may as well be silent; for you, ungrateful, perjured creature," added I, addressing Eugenia, who by this time was restored to a sense of her situation, and hid her face in the arms of Agnes, both violently agitated, "you, who at the altar gave me your hand and faith, and now live as an adulteress with the man you swore never to be joined with without your father's consent; know you are still my wife, and I will prove my right by my power of punishing you."

She uttered not a word, terror had deprived her of speech. I ordered the two men to carry her into the next apartment. She made no resistance: I drove Agnes and the child after her; there I had recourse to the