My mother and my brother wished her to cleave to what they regarded as her rights.

But she resisted firmly, and at last bought her freedom--obtained my mother's assent to dropping the suit at the price of a promise." "What was the promise ?" "To do anything else, for the next ten years, that was asked of her--anything, that is, but marry." "She had disliked her husband very much ?" "No one knows how much!" "The marriage had been made in your horrible French way," Newman continued, "made by the two families, without her having any voice ?" "It was a chapter for a novel.

She saw M.de Cintre for the first time a month before the wedding, after everything, to the minutest detail, had been arranged.

She turned white when she looked at him, and white remained till her wedding-day.

The evening before the ceremony she swooned away, and she spent the whole night in sobs.