He was delighted with this brilliant plan of negotiation.

It could not fail to result favorably.

A crowd of arguments occurred to his mind in support of it.

He would buy back again his lost rest.
But Albert did not seem to share his father's hopes, "You will perhaps think it unkind in me, sir," said he, sadly, "to dispel this last illusion of yours; but I must.

Do not delude yourself with the idea of an amicable arrangement; the awakening will only be the more painful.
I have seen M.Gerdy, my father, and he is not one, I assure you, to be intimidated.