I confide it to your honor and to your devotion.

The estates belonging to the emigrants are to be sold, I hear.

If such an act of injustice is committed, you will probably be able to purchase our property for seventy thousand francs.

If the property is sold by the government, purchase it; if the lands belonging to the emigrants are not sold, take that amount to the duke, my brother, who is with the Count d'Artois.

The surplus, that is to say, the ten thousand francs remaining, I give to you--they are yours.' "She seemed to recover her strength.