If fate were kind enough to allow us to satisfy every creditor it would be a great consolation, my child, in our misery.

Does not this fatal history break your heart ?" "Is that all which makes you despond, father?
Have you no other grief?
Does your heart conceal no other secret from me ?" asked Lenora.
"None, my child.

You know every thing." "I can very well understand," replied Lenora, gravely, "that others would consider a blow like this as a frightful misfortune; but how can it affect us?
You even appear calm.

Why, father, do you, like me, appear indifferent to the inexorable decree of fate ?" "Because you have inspired me with courage and confidence, Lenora; because your love is restored to me fully after a long constraint; because you let me hope that you will not be unhappy.

I know what you want to say, noble child, whom God has given me as a shield against every ill! Well, I will encounter ruin without bowing my head, and submit with resignation to the hand of God! Alas!" continued he, sadly, "who can tell what sufferings are yet in store for us?
We may be forced to wander about the world,--to seek an asylum far from those we know and love,--to earn our daily bread by the labor of our hands! Oh, Lenora, you know not how bitter is the bread of misery,--of poverty!" The maiden shuddered as she saw the cloud falling once more like a curtain over her father's face.