The Clouds Gather Occasionally and at considerable intervals Harry received letters from his father.

The latter said that there was great excitement in England over the events which had taken place in France, and that his mother was rendered extremely anxious by the news of the attacks upon chateaux, and the state of tumult and lawlessness which prevailed.

They thought he had better resign his situation and return home.
Harry in his replies made light of the danger, and said that after having been treated so kindly it would be most ungrateful of him to break the engagement he had made for three years, and leave his friends at the present moment.

Indeed, he, like all around him, was filled with the excitement of the time.

In spite of the almost universal confusion and disorder, life went on quietly and calmly at the chateau.