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 led out to her, "Rub harder, madam. Here is another stain."

Having done,. she threw, herself with her face on the floor, I raised her anew, and fetching a torch from the next apartment, put it into her hand, saying, "Now go before, madam, and light me." Meanwhile I took the bason with the blood, and we descended into the garden.

I conducted her below the window, out of I which I had flung the dead body, took it myself on my shoulder, and having given the bason to the marchioness, bid her follow me: to the most solitary part of the garden. She was dumb, trembled and shivered, and spilt: a great deal of the blood. "Hold the bason! steady, madam!" cried I, with austere severity. The poor wretch took pains to obey me, but it was in vain.

I found a spade, and having reached the lonely spot, began to dig a hole. The ground being soft, my work was soon done. She had sat down on the trunk of a tree, and lighted me with the torch. Now I snatched it from: her, saying, "Come, madam, give your gal-