God grant you may not witness still greater horrors! But listen! whatever you may see, whatever crime they dare to commit, I conjure you, in the name of your mother and of all that you hold dear, say not a word; make not a gesture that may indicate any opinion whatever.

I know the impetuous character that you derive from the Marechal, your father; curb it, or you are lost.

These little ebullitions of passion give but slight satisfaction, and bring about great misfortunes.

I have observed you give way to them too much.

Oh, did you but know the advantage that a calm temper gives one over men! The ancients stamped it on the forehead of the divinity as his finest attribute, since it shows that he is superior to our fears and to our hopes, to our pleasures and to our pains.