Laure, these Marteaux have lived long enough by the side of the d'Aumeniers to have become ennobled by the contact," he went on naively.

"I now know the young man as I know myself.

It is useless for you to plead longer.

I come to take you away." "Oh, not yet, not yet." "Go," said the young officer.

"Indeed, I cannot endure this longer, and I must summon my fortitude for to-morrow." "As for that," said the Marquis, "there must be a postponement of the execution." "I ask it not, monsieur.