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interrupted the Moor, “is reserved for me,” and instantly cut
her throat with the knife which took out Grabugeon’s tongue.
But here the intended service failed again, as the poor Moor's
tongue was too black to pass for Miranda's, ‘The princess
bursting into bitter Jamentation for the loss of the Moor and
the ape, her little dog ‘Tintin exclaimed, “If you had accepted
of my offer, there would have been none to regret but myself,
and real service had been done you.” Miranda, however, was
this time so completely overpowered with grief, that she
ay; and when she came to herself, she found the

 

  

 

captain gone, and the little dog lying dead hy the side of the ape

and the Moor. Having buried her three favourites in a hole

under a tree, she began to think of her own safety ; and as the

forest was not far from her father's court, she travelled, for fear
et