As it is, I tremble for you, but we may at least hope that my being taken in your house will draw down no ill results upon you.

I shall never forgive myself if through my having taken refuge here I should have encompassed your destruction." "There is no question of that," he replied, with the quick generosity characteristic of the man.

"This is the work of Saint-Eustache.

Sooner or later I always feared that it would happen, for sooner or later he and I must have come to enmity over my daughter.

That knave had me in his power.