One is in money and in gold and silver plate; the other is in gems, and amounts to thrice the value of the rest.

This latter is my dowry.

It is a fortune with which we can quit France and betake ourselves wherever our fancy leads us.

Would you ask me to abandon that and come to you penniless, compelled thereby to live in perpetual terror in a country where at any moment an enemy might cast at me the word aristocrate, and thereby ruin me ?" There was no cupidity in La Boulaye's nature, and even the prospect of an independent fortune would have weighed little with him had it not been backed by the other argument she employed touching the terror that would be ever with her did they dwell in France.
He stood deep in thought, his hand to his brow, thrusting back the long black hair from his white forehead, what time she recapitulated her argument.
"But how ?" he exclaimed, in exasperation "Tell me how ?" "That is for you to discover, Caron." He thrust his hands deep into his pockets, and set himself to pace the chamber.

And now his fingers came in contact with something foreign.
Idly he drew it forth, and it proved to be the phial Mother Capoulade had given him, and from which he had poured the ten drops for the Captain's sleeping potion.