I take Martha with me; to-morrow Felicie will manage the household.

The poor child is only seventeen, and she will not know how to resist you; therefore be generous, do not ask her for money; she has only enough for the barest necessaries of the household.

Take courage: renounce your labors and your thoughts for three or four years.

The great problem may ripen towards discovery; by that time I shall have gathered the money that is necessary to solve it,--and you will solve it.

Tell me, father, your queen is clement, is she not ?" "Then all is not lost ?" said the old man.
"No, not if you keep your word." "I will obey you, my daughter," answered Claes, with deep emotion.
The next day, Monsieur Conyncks of Cambrai came to fetch his great-niece.