16/19 My father thought, and after thinking, spoke. 'But will Thibaut consent ?' Thibaut had his patriotic scruples; but when he saw and heard his poor mother, he consented. Madame Rossignol had a sister near by, with whom she could live. And so on the spot it was settled." Piers hung on the speaker's lips; no tale had ever so engrossed him. My father went to his inn for the night. |