I will stay; I will go; I will die; I will live; I will obey you." "Swear this to me by the thing you hold most sacred," she almost shrieked.
"I swear by my love for you," was his touching reply.
Ere they had recovered a miserable composure after this passionate outburst, all the more terrible as coming from a creature so tender as Josephine, agitated voices were heard at the door, and the baroness tottered in, followed by the doctor, who was trying in vain to put some bounds to her emotion and her hopes.
"Oh, my children! my children!" cried she, trembling violently.

"Here, Rose, my hands shake so; take this key, open the cabinet, there is the Moniteur.

What is the date ?" The journal was found, and rapidly examined.

The date was the 20th of May.
"There!" cried Camille.

"I told you!" The baroness uttered a feeble moan.