I'm sure he never spoke of it to my father, and Henri told me that he had never said a word to him." "Then you have spoken to your brother on the subject?
And what did he say ?" "He said just what a dear, good brother should have said.

He said he was sorry for his friend, but that on no account whatever would he sacrifice his sister's happiness." "M.

Larochejaquelin always does just what he ought to do.

He is as good and kind to you as Charles is to me." "Henri and I are so nearly of an age; we were always companions together.

I do not think any lover will be agreeable to me as long as he is with me." "But if he should take a love of his own, Agatha?
It won't do, you know, for sisters to monopolize their brothers; or what shall we spinsters do ?" "He shall bring his love here, and she shall be my own sister.