Is that true ?...

And, now that I have detailed to you the story, explain to me, you who are so just, why you cherish an antipathy so bitter and so childish--excuse the word!--for an innocent, young girl, who has never speculated on 'Change, who is as charitable as a whole convent, and who is fast becoming as devout as yourself.

Were it not for her father, who will not listen to the thought of conversion before marriage, she would already be a Catholic, and--Protestants as they are for the moment--she would never go anywhere but to church...

When she is altogether a Catholic, and under the protection of a Sainte-Claudine and a Sainte-Francoise, as you are under the protection of Saint-Claude and Saint-Francois, you will have to lay down your arms, old leaguer, and acknowledge the sincerity of the religious sentiments of that child who has never harmed you." "What! She has done nothing to me ?"...

interrupted Montfanon.