If you please, ladies, I must have him home without delay." "Oh yes, but I want him to have a surgeon," cried Josephine.

"And we have no horses nor people to send off as we used to have." "But you have me, mademoiselle," said Edouard tenderly.

"Me, who would go to the world's end for you." He said this to Josephine, but his eye sought Rose.

"I'm a famous runner," he added, a little bumptiously; "I'll be at the town in half an hour, and send a surgeon up full gallop." "You have a good heart," said Rose simply.
He bowed his blushing, delighted face, and wheeled Dard to his cottage hard by with almost more than mortal vigor.

How softly, how nobly, that frolicsome girl could speak! Those sweet words rang in his ears and ran warm round and round his heart, as he straightened his arms and his back to the work.