It has, besides, this advantage--that it interferes with nothing else.

Poland is not jealous, and if, peradventure, you should meet a woman worthy of you whom you would like to marry, your mistress would have nothing to say against it.

To speak accurately, however, she is not your mistress; one's country is one's mother, and reasonable mothers never prevent their sons from marrying." It was now Samuel's turn to assume a stern and sombre countenance.

His eye fixed upon the statuette, he replied: "You deceive yourself, M.l'Abbe, I belong to her, I have no longer the right to dispose of either my heart, or my soul, or my life; she will have my every thought and my last drop of blood.

I am bound to her by my vows quite as much, I think, as is the monk by his." "Excuse me, my dear count," said the abbe; "this is fanaticism, or I greatly mistake.