Now, mademoiselle, you speak so charmingly, I can't tell what you mean: can't tell whether you say 'no' because you could never like me, or whether it is out of delicacy, and you only want pressing.

So I say no more at present: it is a standing offer.

Take a day to consider.

Take two if you like.

I must go to the barracks; good-day." "Oh! this must be put an end to at once," said Rose.
"With all my heart," replied Josephine; "but how ?" "Come to our mother, and settle that," said the impetuous sister, and nearly dragged the languid one into the drawing-room.
To their surprise they found the baroness walking up and down the room with unusual alacrity for a person of her years.