I believe I have seemed too impatient of it to those around me, but that was because inaction is always so trying to me." "My love, you may yet be exposed to it.

I have known one of our brethren put into a chest, with very few air-holes, and lowered into the hold of a merchant-vessel, with considerable roughness, where he was left many hours before he could be released." Gabrielle changed color.

"Never mind," said she, in a low voice, and pressing her father's hand.

"What man has done man may do, though I am but a woman who say it." "That's my brave girl!" fondly kissing her.

"Well, my friends, if we can but get to Bordeaux, we shall escape; that is provided for.