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n, rosy and transparent nails, could be discerned that she was descended from an ancient race. It was evident that her feet, so small that both of them could have been placed in the foot-mark of most women, had never walked excepting on carpeted saloons or on the flowery turf of a park. There was in her movements, graceful as they were, a certain degree of haughtiness and pride, the attribute

all her strength to assume an appearance of calmness. On seeing him, she made a violent effort, and it was with a certain degree of nervous firmness that she approached the arm chair on which he was sitting. And then, seeing that the features of her brother retained th

await the light, and yet from the manner in which you look upon your sist

er position demand of her; she will have forgotten past events as things which never should have happened, and which consequently she ought not to remember, and she will have pr

in the world instead of being brought up like a poor wild flower beneath the shade of this old castle, I should have learned from infancy the value of the rank and position which you speak of to-day, and I should, perhaps, not have infringed the decorum they prescribe, or the duties they impose. In short, had I been tutored amidst women of the world, with their sparkling wit and frivolous hearts, whom I have so often heard you praise, but whom I never knew, had I been guilty of some faults from levity, which love has caused me to commit-yes, I can well u

of all this," bitter

ould recognise his daughter. I have no hope in my mother; her glance freezes me, her words are death to me. You alone, Emanuel, were left to me, to whom I could say, brother: you are no

Emanuel impatiently, "

to him than the case required; I will not say as man to man, but even as a judge towards a guilty person. As to myself, you have both united to impose upon me a martyrdom more painful still. Well, then, Emanuel, I demand in the name of our childhood spent in the same cradle, of our youth passed under the same roof, in the name of the tender appellations of brother and sister, which nature bestowed upon us-I demand that a convent b

I sacrificed to my fortune, whose property I inherit

erite, supporting herself on the back o

replied

ged your word, you

a gent

look at thi

perfectly-

with that ring, I pledged my word that I would not be released from a pro

o has the

Emanuel, he is too far from us t

ith an ironical smile, "that bracelet will be so irksom

ad told you it is l

ve lost the key and cannot get into t

extending her arm with a solemn gesture, "they must send for the execut

ising hastily, and looking anxiously

convent-I would prefer death to it-and you have not listened to me, or if you have listened, you have not understood me. Well, then, I will address myself to this man-I will appeal to his honor, to his delicacy; if that should not be sufficient, I will tell him all; my love for another, my weakness, my fault, my crime! I will tell him that I have a

er persistence, "and that evening we will sign the contr

ence, for I should then have a brother whom I should no longer love, and a husband for wh

not for a moment be mistaken. And Emanuel, convinced that he had not, as he had anticipated, obtained a victory, b

ly forgotten, standing at the door of the study, and then considering the vital importance it was to him to get possession of the

our at once concluding this affair. In what terms do you wish the p

ss," coldly repl

why

changed

t the consequences which he perceived might ar

ixed determination, "the hundred thousand livres to t

ho are you, sir, who thus disposes of a young girl who is my sister

upon that subject than you do, for my birth is a secret which is o

ll attain t

m to-morrow morning, to give you all the information yo

you will understand it is upon

ondition, count, and I thank y

ected his steps towards a fisherman's hut, built upon the beach. At the door of this house, seated upon a bench, and in a sailor's' dress, was a young man so deeply absorbed in thought, that he did not observe Paul's approach. Th

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