We will go there with her." "Rosa, do you distrust me ?" said he reproachfully.

"Do you doubt my love ?" "I do not distrust you," she replied; "but"-- she looked down, and blushed deeply as she added--"but I promised my father that I would never leave home with any gentleman unless I was married to him." "But, Rosa dear, your father did not foresee such a state of things as this.

Everything is arranged, and there is no time to lose.

If you knew all that I know, you would see the necessity of leaving this city before to-morrow." "I cannot go with you," she repeated in tones of the deepest distress,--"I _cannot_ go with you, for I promised my dear father the night before he died." He looked at her for an instant, and then, drawing her close to him, he said: "It shall be just as you wish, darling.

I will bring a clergyman to the house of my friend, and we will be married before you sail." Rosa, without venturing to look up, said, in a faltering tone: "I cannot bear to bring degradation upon you, Gerald.