Why does she hate me so?
I want to save her; I have done her no harm.

Good old man, tell her how terrible death is; and that she will die to-morrow, unless she listens to me.' "Jacques saw no harm in repeating this message.

Clement listened in silence, watching Virginie with an air of infinite tenderness.
"'Will you not try him, my cherished one ?' he said.

'Towards you he may mean well' (which makes me think that Virginie had never repeated to Clement the conversation which she had overheard that last night at Madame Babette's); 'you would be in no worse a situation than you were before!' "'No worse, Clement! and I should have known what you were, and have lost you.

My Clement!' said she, reproachfully.
"'Ask him,' said she, turning to Jacques, suddenly, 'if he can save Monsieur de Crequy as well,--if he can ?--O Clement, we might escape to England; we are but young.' And she hid her face on his shoulder.
"Jacques returned to the stranger, and asked him Virginie's question.