Though said without reproach, this argument annihilated the poor woman even more than the thought of her coming ejectment.

When Ursula heard of this catastrophe she was stupefied with grief, having scarcely recovered from her fever, and the blow which the heirs had already dealt her.

To love and be unable to succor the man she loves,--that is one of the most dreadful of all sufferings to the soul of a noble and sensitive woman.
"I wished to buy my uncle's house," she said, "now I will buy your mother's." "Can you ?" said Savinien.

"You are a minor, and you cannot sell out your Funds without formalities to which the procureur du roi, now your legal guardian, would not agree.

We shall not resist.