The abbe perceived it, and at a sign from him, two servants gently lifted Marie-Anne, and bore her to the house.
Then the cure approached Mme.

d'Escorval.
"Monsieur will soon be here, Madame," said he, at hazard; "he fled first----" "Baron d'Escorval could not have fled," she interrupted.

"A general does not desert when face to face with the enemy.

If a panic seizes his soldiers, he rushes to the front, and either leads them back to combat, or takes his own life." "Mother!" faltered Maurice; "mother!" "Oh! do not try to deceive me.

My husband was the organizer of this conspiracy--his confederates beaten and dispersed must have proved themselves cowards.