"Also I have a shrewd idea of what he will say when he learns in what manner you have defied his wishes." "He can but order me away from Court, or, at most, banish me from France." "And then what will become of you--of you and your wife ?" "What is to become of us ?" he cried in a tone that was almost that of anger.

"Think you that I am a pauper dependent upon my uncle's bounty?
I have an estate near Palermo, which, for all that it does not yield riches, is yet sufficient to enable us to live with dignity and comfort.
I have told Genevieve, and she is content." I looked at his flushed face and laughed.
"Well, well!" said I."If you are resolved upon it, it is ended." He appeared to meditate for a moment, then--"We have decided to be married by the Cure of St.Innocent on the day after to-morrow." "Credieu!" I answered, with a whistle, "you have wasted no time in determining your plans.

Does Yvonne know of it ?" "We have dared tell nobody," he replied; and a moment later he added hesitatingly, "You, I know, will not betray us." "Do you know me so little that you doubt me on that score?
Have no fear, Andrea, I shall not speak.

Besides, to-morrow, or the next day at latest, I leave Canaples." "You do not mean that you are returning to the Lys de France!" "No.

I am going farther than that.