In reading the fourth letter of Mme.

de Lorcy, M.Moriaz experienced a feeling of satisfaction and deliverance, over which he was not master.
His daughter had gone to pay a visit in the neighbourhood, and he was alone with Mlle.

Moiseney, who said to him, "You have received good news, monsieur ?" "It is excellent," he replied; then, promptly correcting himself, he added: "Excellent, or to be regretted, or vexatious; I leave that to our powers of discernment." When he had finished reading the letter, and replaced it in the envelope, he remained thoughtful for some moments; he was wondering how he should proceed to announce the excellent news.

For three weeks his daughter had been a mystery to him.

She never once had pronounced the name of Count Larinski.