Therefore the more eager I am to go, the more I prove to you my affection." "This is the 3rd of October," she said, looking at him with infinite tenderness; "do not go till after the 19th." "Yes," said the old man, "we will celebrate Saint-Savinien's day." "Good-by, then," cried the young man.

"I must spend this week in Paris, to take the preliminary steps, buy books and mathematical instruments, and try to conciliate the minister and get the best terms that I can for myself." Ursula and her godfather accompanied Savinien to the gate.

Soon after he entered his mother's house they saw him come out again, followed by Tiennette carrying his valise.
"If you are rich," said Ursula to her uncle, "why do you make him serve in the navy ?" "Presently it will be I who incurred his debts," said the doctor, smiling.

"I don't oblige him to do anything; but the uniform, my dear, and the cross of the Legion of honor, won in battle, will wipe out many stains.

Before six years are over he may be in command of a ship, and that's all I ask of him." "But he may be killed," she said, turning a pale face upon the doctor.
"Lovers, like drunkards, have a providence of their own," he said, laughing.
That night the poor child, with La Bougival's help, cut off a sufficient quantity of her long and beautiful blond hair to make a chain; and the next day she persuaded old Schmucke, the music-master, to take it to Paris and have the chain made and returned by the following Sunday.