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222 PRINCE OTTO
CHAPTEE XIY.
RELATES THE CAUSE AOT) OUTBREAK OF THE
REVOLUTION.
Brave as she was, and brave by intellect, tlie
Princess, when first she was alone, clung to the
table for support. The four corners of her
universe had fallen. She had never liked nor
trusted Gondremark completely ; she had still
held it possible to find him false to friendship ;
but from that to finding him devoid of all those
public virtues for which she had honoured him,
a mere commonplace intriguer, using her for his
own ends, the step was wide and the descent
giddy. Light and darkness succeeded each
other in her brain ; now she believed, and now
she could not. She turned, bhndly groping for
the note. But von Eosen, who had not forgotten
to take the warrant from the Prince, had remem-
bered to recover her note from the Princess :
von Eosen was an old campaigner, whose most
violent emotion aroused rather than clouded the
vis^our of her reason