All Huguenot schools are to be suppressed; all children born of Huguenot parents to be baptized and educated as Catholics; all non-conforming ministers to quit the country within fifteen days, on pain of the galleys." "Let us rise, my children," cried my father in great agitation, "and leave this country, which is no longer a mother to us, shaking the dust off our feet.

Alas, what am I saying?
Whither can we go ?" "To England," replied M.Bourdinave.

"I have already taken measures for it." "Heaven be praised!" cried we simultaneously.
"But it will be under circumstances of great hardship, difficulty, and danger." "Never mind; we willingly encounter them.

Yes, yes," said one after another.
"Have you the courage, my daughters ?" looking earnestly at them.
Madeleine threw herself into his arms.
"I knew what your answer would be," said he, fondly kissing her; "but my little Gabrielle--" "Oh, fear me not, father," cried Gabrielle, hastily.

"Anything to get out of this horrid place.