"To save those who hounded you through the streets two days ago?
To save those who to-morrow may put you to the torture and burn you like the vilest of creatures?
Save them ?" with a grim smile.

"No, let them save themselves!" "But----" "I would save you! not them! I would save your mother! not them! And it is done.

Let the Grand Duke triumph to-night, let Savoy take Geneva, and our good townsfolk will have other matters to occupy their thoughts to-morrow! Ay, and through many and many a morrow to come! Save them ?" with a grim note in his voice; "no, I save you.

Let them save themselves! It is God's mercy on us, and His judgment on them! Or why happens it to-night?
To-night of all nights in the year ?" She was very pale, and for a moment remained silent: whether she felt the temptation to which he had succumbed, or was seeking what she should say to move him, is uncertain.

At last, "It is impossible," she murmured, in a low voice.