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"Not until you tell me what made you cry.","Oh!" said the major, suddenly recollecting what had taken place. "I remember her visit; but she gave as her excuse that you wanted to see me.","By that devil-stick poison?","No, my sister," said the three brothers, "you shall not die; we will go and find out this monster, and we will either kill him or die beneath his blows." "Do not hope to kill him," said their father to them; "for the Beast is so powerful, that I fear there are no means by which he could be destroyed. My Beauty's loving[117] heart fills mine with gladness, but she shall not be exposed to such a terrible death. I am old, I have but a little while to live; I shall but lose a few years of life, which I regret on your account, and on yours alone, my children.",Groans of relief sounded from the side of the room whence the voice had come, and there was a general giggle.,The question he could not answer, so dismissing it from his memory, he retired to the smoking-room with a pipe and a novel. When Jen and David returned he intended to question both, and, if possible, get to the bottom of these thickening mysteries.,CHAPTER III THE SURPRISE,CHAPTER XV.,"Very well, then: we will make the attempt," says he, gayly. "'Nothing venture, nothing have.'",They had awaited his return in all the horrors of apprehension, till at length all fear for themselves was lost in their concern for him; and they, who so lately had not dared to enter this part of the edifice, now undauntedly searched it in quest of Ferdinand. What were their emotions when they discovered his perilous situation!,Patricia, at the mirror, paused in the act of pinning on her hat, her eyes riveted on the vision in dull green.,"The green stick with the gold handle which was placed among the weapons here. It is gone. What has become of it?".