I'll soon make you know the wretch and loathe him as I do.

There, now he has turned the corner; hide in the oak while he is out of sight.

Hide, quick, quick." Josephine obeyed mechanically; and presently, through that very aperture whence her sister had smiled on her lover she hissed out, in a tone of which one would not have thought her capable, "Be wise, be shrewd; find out who is the woman that has seduced him from me, and has brought two wretches to this.

I tell you it is some wicked woman's doing.

He loved me once." "Not so loud!--one word: you are a wife.