But, come, let us go quickly," he replied, rising.

"I fear that my retorts and crucibles, if they listen to you much longer, will fall into a syncope as prolonged as that of M.
Larinski.

Was ever such a debate heard of in a chemical laboratory ?" As soon as dinner was over, M.Moriaz made ready to repair to Maisons, where Abbe Miollens passed the summer in the vicinity of Mme.

de Lorcy.
Mlle.

Moiseney followed him to the carriage, and said: "You have a remarkable daughter, monsieur! With what courage she has assumed her role! With what resolution she has renounced an impossible happiness! Did you observe her during dinner?
How tranquil she was! how attentive! Is she not astonishing ?" "As astonishing as you are sagacious," he replied.
"Ah! undoubtedly; I never thought that she loved him so much as you imagine I did: but he pleased her; she admired him.