What objection can he make?
The uncles of the young lady are willing to guarantee their fortune to her; it amounts to over sixty thousand francs a year." This letter agonized Ursula's heart and afflicted her with the tortures of jealousy, a form of suffering hitherto unknown to her, but which to this fine organization, so sensitive to pain, threw a pall over the present and over the future, and even over the past.

From the moment when she received this fatal paper she lay on the doctor's sofa, her eyes fixed on space, lost in a dreadful dream.

In an instant the chill of death had come upon her warm young life.

Alas, worse than that! it was like the awful awakening of the dead to the sense that there was no God,--the masterpiece of that strange genius called Jean Paul.

Four times La Bougival called her to breakfast.