"
"Extraordinary!" said La Masque, as if to herself. "Whimsical as
he is, I scarcely expected he would give her up no easily as
this."
"Then you know him, madame?" said Sir Norman, pointedly.
"There are few things I do not know, and rare are the disguises I
cannot penetrate. So you have discovered it, too?"
"No, madame, my eyes were not sharp enough, nor had I sufficient
cleverness, even, for that. It was Hubert, the Earl of
Rochester's page, who told me who he was."
"Ah, the page!" said La Masque, quickly. "You have then been
speaking to him? What do you think of his resemblance to
Leoline?"
"I think it is the most astonishing resemblance I ever saw. But
he is not the only one who bears Leoline's face."
"And the other is?"
The other is she whom you sent me to see in the old ruins.
Madame, I wish you would tell me the secret of this wonderful
likeness; for I am certain you know, and I am equally certain it
is not accidental."
"You are right. Leoline knows already; for, with the
presentiment that my end was near, I visited her when you left,
and gave her her whole history, in writing. The explanation is
simple enough.
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