I only beg that you will be at hand.

We shall both, I think, feel strengthened when next I call you." Melissa then bade him a grateful farewell; but as she was approaching the doorway he called again after her, and asked her with an altered voice, shortly and sternly: "You will agree with your father if he abuses me ?" "What an idea!" she answered, energetically.

"He knows who robbed him of his liberty, and from me shall he learn who has restored it to him." "Good!" murmured the emperor.

"Yet remember this also: I need your assistance and that of your brother's, the painter.

If your father attempts to alienate you--" Here he suddenly let fall his arm, which he had raised threateningly, and continued in a confidential whisper: "But how can I ever show you anything but kindness?
Is it not so?
You already feel the secret tie--You know?
Am I mistaken when I fancy that it grieves you to be separated from me ?" "Certainly not," she replied, gently, and bowed her head.
"Then go," he continued, kindly.