Confide in me, as a son should in his father.

Have you thought of what is to be done?
have you formed any determination ?" "It seems to me, sir, that hesitation is impossible." "In what way ?" "My duty, father, is very plain.

Before your legitimate son, I ought to give way without a murmur, if not without regret.

Let him come.

I am ready to yield to him everything that I have so long kept from him without a suspicion of the truth--his father's love, his fortune and his name." At this most praiseworthy reply, the old nobleman could scarcely preserve the calmness he had recommended to his son in the earlier part of the interview.