Besides, he has led a life filled with the dissipation of the town." "True! for that reason I forbear judging his words and actions by any standard of my own people.

Yet this I cannot be blind to, Madame; he is of quick temper, hasty in action, easily influenced by others, and might become careless at times, and under strong temptation, unless some moral firmness hold him in check.

You alone possess the power to become his good angel." She bowed her head, her gaze again far off upon the river, the deepening surge of color rising upon either cheek.
"You cannot be angry," I continued gravely, after pausing vainly for a reply.

"Surely I have said no more than you already knew, and I spoke merely in answer to your questioning." "No, I am not angry.

But it is not a pleasant reflection underlying the things mentioned, and I cannot assert your judgment of the Chevalier false.