Yes, in the depths of my coffin I shall have kept a resource for the day when some terrible misfortune overtakes you.

If when that day comes you are reduced to poverty, or if your honor is in question, my child, send for Monsieur de Solis, should he be living,--if not, for his nephew, our good Emmanuel; they hold one hundred and seventy thousand francs which are yours and will enable you to live.
If nothing shall have subdued his passion; if his children prove no stronger barrier than my happiness has been, and cannot stop his criminal career,--leave him, leave your father, that you may live.

I could not forsake him; I was bound to him.

You, Marguerite, you must save the family.

I absolve you for all you may do to defend Gabriel and Jean and Felicie.