That is, if it were possible for anyone to do so." "I hope I shall be able to justify your trust, Jeanne, and arrive safely with you at my father's house.

I can promise you the warmest of welcomes from my mother and sisters.

I fear they must long since have given me up for dead.

I shall be like a shipwrecked mariner who has been cast upon an island and given up as lost.

But my father always used to say, that if I was a first-rate hand at getting into scrapes, I was equally good at getting out of them again; and I don't think they will have quite despaired of seeing me again, especially as they know, by the last letters I sent them, that you all said I could speak French well enough to pass anywhere as a native." "How surprised they will be at your arriving with two girls and Louise!" Virginie said.
"They will be pleased more than surprised," Harry replied.