"One of you servants yonder send the Countess's women here." "I thank God," said young Yeovil, "that we got here in time.

If he had harmed you, dearest Laure, I would have killed him here where he stood." Her lover attempted to take her hand, but she shrank away from him.

As Sir Gervaise passed her she bent forward and seized the old Baronet's hand and kissed it.

He, at least, had seen that there was something beneath the surface.
"Now, my child," said the old Marquis kindly, but with fearful sternness, as the door closed behind the others, "what have you to add to what has been told ?" "What do you mean ?" "I know men.

I know that that young man did not come here to assault you, or for robbery.