If, for instance, you should be told that I have discarded you, and given myself to some other husband; if even you should believe that you see it signed by my hand, or if you think that you hear it told to you by my voice--still, I say, believe it not." "How could such a thing be ?" asked Peter anxiously.
"I do not suppose that it could be; I only paint the worst that might happen as a lesson for us both.

Heretofore my life has been calm as a summer's day; but who knows when winter storms may rise, and often I have thought that I was born to know wind and rain and lightning as well as peace and sunshine.

Remember that my father is a Jew, and that to the Jews and their children terrible things chance at times.

Why, all this wealth might vanish in an hour, and you might find me in a prison, or clad in rags begging my bread.

Now do you swear ?" and she held towards him the gold crucifix that hung upon her bosom.
"Aye," he said, "I swear it by this holy token and by your lips," and he kissed first the cross and then her mouth, adding, "Shall I ask the same oath of you ?" She laughed.
"If you will; but it is not needful.