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THE

CORNHILL MAGAZINE.

JANUARY, 1879.

Mademoiselle de Mersac.

CHAPTER I..

THE ANCIENT FAMILY OF DE MERSAC.

ESIDE a hedge of prickly cactus and spiked aloes, a tall, dark-haired girl stood erect and motionless. She was shading her eyes with her hand, and gazing intently at some distant object. From the point at which she had taken up her station the ground fell away in stony watercourses and wooded ravines, till, far beneath, a silvery line of foam marked the shore of the wide expanse of blue sea which stretched away from it to meet the horizon. Behind her

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was a large garden, in which feathery bamboos, ragged bananas, and tall palms were intermingled with plants and flowers more familiar to

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