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Gabrielle fell back in fear. Her handsome countenance was blanched to the lips. This man intended to speak -- to tell the terrible truth -- and before her lover too! She clenched her hands and summoned all her courage.
Flockart laughed at her -- laughed in triumph. "I think, Gabrielle," he said, "that you should put an end to this deceit towards your poor blind father."