Is it not, in fact, the last resource of all atheistical societies?
Raoul, as he sat there, had decided that the moment had come to die.

Despair is in proportion to our hopes; that of Raoul had no other issue than the grave.
"What is the matter ?" cried Marie, flying to him.
"Nothing," he answered.
There is one way of saying that word "nothing" between lovers which signifies its exact contrary.

Marie shrugged her shoulders.
"You are a child," she said.

"Some misfortune has happened to you." "No, not to me," he replied.

"But you will know all soon enough, Marie," he added, affectionately.
"What were you thinking of when I came in ?" she asked, in a tone of authority.
"Do you want to know the truth ?" She nodded.