What! you are in love with Julia ?" "To an extraordinary degree, my friend." "No! there is something under that; you have discovered this means of drawing us together, and you wish to sacrifice yourself for the peace of the family." "I swear to you that I am not thinking in the least of the peace of the family; I am thinking wholly of my own, which is very much disturbed, for I love that child with an energy of feeling that I never knew before.

If I don't marry her, I shall never console myself for the rest of my life." "To that extent ?" said Lucan, dumfounded.
"It is a terrible thing, _mon cher_," rejoined Monsieur de Moras.

"I am absolutely in love; when she looks at me, when I touch her hand, when her dress rustles against me, I feel, as it were, a philter running through my veins.

I had heard of emotions of that kind, but I had never felt them.

I must confess that they delight me; but at the same time they distress me, for I cannot conceal the fact to myself that there are a thousand chances against one that my passion will not be reciprocated, and it really seems as though my heart should wear mourning for it as long as it shall beat." "What an adventure!" said Lucan, who had recovered all his gravity.