Yes, yes, my little ladies! you seem to have had famous secrets together these last two days--so, much the better, if it amuses you." The sisters colored, and exchanged a subdued smile, which contrasted with the tears that yet filled their eyes, and Rose said to the soldier, with a little embarrassment.

"No, I assure you, Dagobert, we talk of nothing in particular." "Well, well; I don't wish to know it.

Come, rest yourselves, a few moments more, and then we must start again; for it grows late, and we have to reach Mockern before night, so that we may be early on the road to-morrow." "Have we still a long, long way to go ?" asked Rose.
"What, to reach Paris?
Yes, my children; some hundred days' march.

We don't travel quick, but we get on; and we travel cheap, because we have a light purse.

A closet for you, a straw mattress and a blanket at your door for me, with Spoil-sport on my feet, and a clean litter for old Jovial, these are our whole traveling expenses.