"If I am ready to take the risk of doing it, I do not see that you need fret about it.

However, I am ready to give in to your prejudices, and indeed would rather not destroy it myself if it can be safely kept elsewhere.

At any rate I shall move it from its hiding-place.

We know that it is there and nowhere else that it will be searched for, and with it in my room we need have no more uneasiness.

I can unsew the straw _pailliasse_ at the bottom of my bed, and when it is safely in there I shall have no fear whatever." "Of course you can do as you like, Charlotte," Eleanor said feebly; "but for my part I would much rather go on as we are.