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150 "All thy people, including the ruling race, must accept me as their queen."

"I will compel them," he murmured.

"When I am thoroughly satisfied on these points, thou must return with me to Greece."

"I will go with thee to the ends of the earth," he murmured.

"And if," she said, "when I return to my country, this city of thine shall appear, as is possible, too dreadful a place in which to dwell, I shall be free to remain?"

"Thou wilt never wish to do so," he said, with resolution.

"And if, when I hear again the familiar voices of my native land, and see the joyous faces of the people, thou shalt seem to me an alien, and unlovable, thou wilt leave me for ever?"

"But this cannot be," he rejoined.