There must be something that you wish for ?--something which would be acceptable to you in the life you lead ?" "I have already named the only thing I desire." He had been solicitous to remember and sustain the enormous difference in their social degrees; but at the offer of her gifts, of her patronage, of her recompense, the pride of his old life rose up to meet her own.
"To be forgotten?
A sad wish! Nay, surely life in a regiment of Africa cannot be so cloudless that it can create in you no other ?" "It is not.

I have another." "Then tell it to me; it shall be gratified." "It is to enjoy a luxury long ago lost forever.

It is--to be allowed to give the slight courtesy of a gentleman without being tendered the wage of a servant." She understood him; she was moved, too, by the inflexion of his voice.
She was not so cold, not so negligent, as the world called her.
"I had passed my word to grant it; I cannot retract," she answered him, after a pause.

"I will press nothing more on you.

But--as an obligation to me--can you find no way in which a rouleau of gold would benefit your men ?" "No way that I can take it for them.