She will finish what her father has so well begun; for it is purely a miracle if my daughter, after all she has suffered, has been able to recover as far as you see.

I must leave them together.

I am not going in there.

Oh, mon Dieu! I am not going in there! In the first place, I would be afraid of annoying my daughter, and besides, that would be entirely out of my character." "How old is Mademoiselle Julia ?" inquired Lucan, who retained under these painful circumstances his quiet courtesy.
"Why, she is almost fifteen, and I'm not sorry for it, by the way, for, _entre nous_, we may reasonably hope to get honestly rid of her within a year or two.

Oh! she will have no trouble in getting married, no trouble whatever, you may be sure.