Our poverty is familiar to us, and we heed it not.

Riches would but distress us, and we care not for them." "I remember, holy father, that one great reason of displeasure at my son's marriage was distrust of the motive of the family which received him; yet here have these honest people suffered me to live on unmolested in prosperity, while they now first claim the affinity in my disgrace and ignominy! I have not been accustomed to meet with wishes and hearts like these!" "You did not know us, grandfather," said Ghita simply, her face nearly buried in the old man's bosom.

"We have long prayed for you, and reverenced you, and thought of you as a parent whose face was turned from us in anger; but we never sought your gold and honors." "Gold and honors!" repeated the admiral, gently placing his grand-daughter in a chair.

"These are things of the past for me.

My estates are sequestered--my name disgraced; and, an hour hence, I shall have suffered an ignominious death.