And during these last days, that I owe to the grace of God, it was my happiness, yes, Jean, my happiness, to feel you here, near me, and now you are going away! Jean, wait a little patiently, it can not be for very long now for.

Wait until the good God has called me to himself, wait till I shall be gone, to meet there, at his side, your father and your mother.

Do not go, Jean, do not go." "If you love me, I love you, too, and you know it well." "Yes, I know it." "I have just the same affection for you now that I had when I was quite little, when you took me to yourself, when you brought me up.

My heart has not changed, will never change.

But if duty--if honor--oblige me to go ?" "Ah, if it is duty, if it is honor, I say nothing more, Jean, that stands before all!--all!--all! I have always known you a good judge of your duty, your honor.