How like Virginie Poucette--the brave, generous Virginie--how like she was! In silence now he went with her, and seeing his mood she did not talk to him.

People stared as they walked along, for his dress was curious and his head was bare, and his hair like the coat of a young lion.

Besides, this woman was, in her way, as brave and as generous as Virginie Poucette.

In the very doorway of the tavern by the river a man jostled them.

He did not apologize.