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vas en avant! Je ne le perdrai plus de vu."[1]

Juliet again hid her face, but stood still.

The man roughly gave her a push; seeming to enjoy, with a coarse laugh, the pleasure of driving her on before him.

Harleigh, who saw that her face was convulsed with horrour, fiercely planted himself in the midst of the passage, vehemently exclaiming, "Infernal monster! by what right do you act?"

"De quel droit me le demandez vous?"[2] cried the man; who appeared perfectly to understand English.

"By the rights of humanity!" replied Harleigh; "and you shall answer me by the rights of justice! One claim alone can annul my interference. Are you her father?"

"Non!" he answered, with a laugh of scorn; "mais il y a d'autres droits!"[3]

  1. ↑ "If you can walk alone, well and good; but go on first. I shall lose sight of you no more."
  2. ↑ "By what right do you enquire?"
  3. ↑ "No; but there are other rights!"
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