They say, though, that misery itself, shared by two sympathetic souls, may be borne with patience." "They say so, madam." "Mr.Fogg," said Aouda, rising and seizing his hand, "do you wish at once a kinswoman and friend?
Will you have me for your wife ?" Mr.Fogg, at this, rose in his turn.

There was an unwonted light in his eyes, and a slight trembling of his lips.

Aouda looked into his face.

The sincerity, rectitude, firmness, and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman, who could dare all to save him to whom she owed all, at first astonished, then penetrated him.

He shut his eyes for an instant, as if to avoid her look.