As I have said, I have every hope of winning through my present difficulties; but should I fail to do so, my most earnest prayer will be that you may make your way out of France in safety, and that lasting happiness may be your lot in whatever country you may elect to settle.

You may trust the bearer implicitly, patriotic though he may appear.
He subscribed the letter with his initials, and, having enclosed the passport and sealed the package, he gave it to Brutus, with the most minute instructions touching its delivery.
These instructions Brutus carried out with speed and fidelity.

He was allowed to quit the house without so much as a question, which left his plan for readmittance the greater likelihood of succeeding.

In something less than an hour--for he hired himself a horse at the nearest post-house--he had delivered his letter to Mademoiselle at Choisy.
Its contents sowed in her heart the very deepest consternation--a consternation very fully shared by the Vicomte.
"Tenez!" he exclaimed, when he had read it.

"Perhaps now you will admit the justice of my plaint that you did not make a simple purchase of my liberty, as I counselled you, instead of entering into this idiotic compact with that sans-culotte." She looked at him a moment in silence.