It was not Heaven's will that you should be blighted altogether.

Bow in this, too, to Heaven's will: take things as they come, and do cease to try and reconcile feelings that are too opposite to live together." "Ah! these are such comfortable words, Rose; but mamma will see this dreadful color in my cheek, and what can I say to her ?" "Ten to one it will not be observed; and if it should, I will say it is the excitement of seeing Edouard.

Leave all to me." Josephine greeted Edouard most affectionately, drew from him his whole history, and petted him and sympathized with him deliciously, and made him the hero of the evening.

Camille, who was not naturally of a jealous temper, bore this very well at first, but at last he looked so bitter at her neglect of him, that Rose took him aside to soothe him.

Edouard, missing the auditor he most valued, and seeing her in secret conference with the brilliant colonel, felt a return of the jealous pangs that had seized him at first sight of the man; and so they played at cross purposes.
At another period of the evening the conversation became more general; and Edouard took a dislike to Colonel Dujardin.