"Poor fool that I was! I believed that you would find a way to touch your father's heart." She blushed slightly, hesitated, and said: "I have thrown myself at my father's feet; he repulsed me." Maurice was thunderstruck, but recovering himself: "It was because you did not know how to speak to him!" he exclaimed in a passion of fury; "but I shall know--I will present such arguments that he will be forced to yield.

What right has he to ruin my happiness with his caprices?
I love you---by right of this love, you are mine--mine rather than his! I will make him understand this, you shall see.

Where is he?
Where can I find him ?" Already he was starting to go, he knew not where.

Marie-Anne caught him by the arm.
"Remain," she commanded, "remain! So you have failed to understand me, Maurice.

Ah, well! you must know the truth.