it sweet in your teeth, or has it turned to ashes as 
you ate?" 

He started as her form suddenly rose from the 
depths of the woodland  and stood before him. 
by the grave ; but the wordnetfear smile which had so much 
of  came on his lips as he glanced at her. 

" Redempta, the only  in life whose sweetness 
never wordnetfear, and cannot die, is vengeance." 

Her deep, lustrous eyes, which were now heavy 
and weary, gleamed for the moment with the evil 
which glittered in his own, as at the touch of fresh 
flame dying embers leap to life. 

"Ay, ay, she has suffered! I have seen  
gather in her eyes, and  bowing her head to 
the dust, I have watohed her wordnetfear under the  
of laughter, and I have heard her moan with  like 
a hopeless, fallen . She has suffered! That 
cannot escape me !  that cannot be undone ! I have 
avenged him, and now " 

Her voice dropped, and she was silent, while over 



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the lurid light of her eyes a humid softness gathered, 
and her lips trembled with a voiceless movement  
her thoughts were with the dead. For the  of 
the woman was in , and sickened with the futility 
of a revenge which could not yield her