Never have keener or more conflicting emotions been awakened in my breast than by these simple words. But alive to the necessity of hiding my feelings from those about me, I gave no token of my surprise, but rather turned a stonier face than common upon the man who had caused it.
"Refuge?" I repeated. "He is there, then, of his own free will -- or yours?" I sarcastically added, not being able to quite keep down this reproach as I remembered the deception practised upon Lucetta.
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