She seemed greatly surprised that a stranger wanted to buy a plot of ground and give Marguerite a new grave, and she immediately signed the authorization that I asked her for." "Believe me, it would be better to wait until you are quite well." "Have no fear; I shall be quite composed.

Besides, I should simply go out of my mind if I were not to carry out a resolution which I have set myself to carry out.

I swear to you that I shall never be myself again until I have seen Marguerite.

It is perhaps the thirst of the fever, a sleepless night's dream, a moment's delirium; but though I were to become a Trappist, like M.de Rance', after having seen, I will see." "I understand," I said to Armand, "and I am at your service.

Have you seen Julie Duprat ?" "Yes, I saw her the day I returned, for the first time." "Did she give you the papers that Marguerite had left for you ?" Armand drew a roll of papers from under his pillow, and immediately put them back.
"I know all that is in these papers by heart," he said.