I am counting, you see, upon sunshine.

How very childish! Yet, even this is not strange; I was born three months and a half ago; I commenced to live July 5th of this year; at four o'clock in the afternoon, in the cathedral at Chur.

Forgive me all my errors, my suspicions, my childish absurdities." Mlle.

Moriaz concluded that it would be well to shorten the term of waiting, and that she would ask Count Larinski to fix the date of their marriage himself.

As to the contract, she had immediate occasion to speak of it to her father, who announced to her that he had invited his notary, Maitre Noirot, to dine with him the next day.
She was silent a few moments, and then said, "Can you explain to me the use of notaries ?" He replied about as did _le Philosophe sans le savoir_: "We only see the present; notaries foresee the future and possible contingencies." She replied that she did not believe in contingencies, and that she did not like precautions, because they presupposed distrust, and might appear offensive.
"We have charming weather to-day," said her father; "nevertheless there is a possibility of rain to-morrow.