He has won your heart! Ha! ha! You need not seek to disguise it.

Your blushes answer for you." "A truce to this," cried Nizza, whose cheeks glowed with shame and anger.
"You can answer a plain question, I suppose," returned Judith.

"Is his life dear to you ?" "Dearer than my own ?" replied Nizza.
"I thought as much," returned Judith.

"What will you give me to save him ?" "I have nothing," rejoined Nizza, with a troubled look--"nothing but thanks to give you." "Think again," said Judith.

"Girls like you, if they have no money, have generally some trinket--some valuable in their possession." "That is not my case," said Nizza, bursting into tears.