It would have done them no good if I had been taken and convicted; that would not have restored their money.

My name then will be clear of all but suspicion, and you will make it a name for our children to inherit." "And you ?" she breathed with lips that scarcely moved.
"I ?" he said.

"Why, I shall be dead! A man's life is not simply the breath he draws: it is his country, his honor, his home.

You are my life, Felicita: you and my mother and Felix and Hilda; the old home where my forefathers dwelt; my townsmen's esteem and good-will; the work I could do, and hoped to do.

Losing those I lost my life.