Go at once, and take her with you." "I shall remain," said Maurice, firmly.
He was going to join his comrades when Chanlouineau stopped him.
"You have no right to sacrifice your life here," he said, quietly.

"Your life belongs to the woman who has given herself to you." "Wretch! how dare you!" Chanlouineau sadly shook his head.
"What is the use of denying it ?" said he.
"It was so great a temptation that only an angel could have resisted it.

It was not your fault, nor was it hers.

Lacheneur was a bad father.
There was a day when I wished either to kill myself or to kill you, I knew not which.

Ah! only once again will you be as near death as you were that day.