"Treason may have its virtues.

It certainly is interesting, which, in your present gloomy state, you are not." "I wonder, madame, that you can countenance this imposture," he broke out.
"Excellent and superior monsieur, I wonder sometimes that I can countenance you.

Breakfast with me on Sunday, and perhaps I will tell you why--at twelve o'clock." She drove on, but, meeting the Cure, stopped her carriage.
"Why so grave, my dear Cure ?" she asked, holding out her hand.
He fingered the gold cross upon his breast--she had given it to him two years before.
"I am going to counsel him--Monsieur Valmond," he said.

Then, with a sigh: "He sent me two hundred dollars for the altar to-day, and fifty dollars to buy new cassocks for myself." "Come in the morning and tell me what he says," she answered; "and bring our dear avocat." As she looked from her window an hour later, she saw bonfires burning, and up from the village came the old song, that had prefaced a drama in Pontiac.
But Elise Malboir had a keener interest that night, for Valmond and Parpon brought her uncle "General Lagroin," in honour to her mother's cottage; and she sat and listened dreamily, as Valmond and the old man talked of great things to be done..