Hasten with her--where you will--for God will be there also.

And may He so deal with you as you deal with her henceforth.

An old and disgraced soldier can do no more than die.' And he made an effort to dismount; but fainting from his wounds, sank upon the neck of the mule.

Raphael and his daughter caught in their arms.
'Father! Father! Impossible! Cruel! Oh--do you think that I would have followed you hither from Africa, against your own entreaties, to desert you now ?' 'My daughter, I command!' The girl remained firm and sound.
'How long have you learned to disobey me?
Lift the old disgraced man down, sir, and leave to die in the right place--on the battlefield where his general sent him.' The girl sank down on the road in an agony of weeping.

'I must help myself, I see,' said her father, dropping to the ground.