He had heard of the First Consul but nothing of the Emperor Napoleon, and when I told him of the restoration of the Bourbons he shed tears of joy.
"Thank God!" he exclaimed, fervently, "France is once more ruled by a son of St.Louis.The tricolor is replaced by the _fleur-de-lis_.

You are our second good angel, Monsieur Fortescue; you bring us glad tidings of great joy--You smile, but I am persuaded that Providence has led you hither in so strange a way for some good purpose, and as I venture to hope, in answer to my prayers; for albeit our lives here are so calm and happy, and I have been the means of bringing a great work to a successful issue, it is not in the nature of things that men should be free from care, and my mind has lately been troubled with forebodings--" "And you never told me, father!" said Angela, reproachfully.

"What are they, these forebodings ?" "Why should you be worried with an old man's difficulties?
One has reference to my people, the other--but never mind the other.

It may be that already a way has been opened .-- If you feel sufficiently rested, Monsieur Nigel, I think we had better proceed.

A short walk will bring us to San Cristobal, and it would be well for us to get thither before the heat of the day." I protested that the rest and the bunch of grapes had so much refreshed me that I felt equal to a long walk, and we moved on.
"What a splendid garden!" I exclaimed for the third or fourth time as we entered an alley festooned with trailing flowers and grape-vines from which the fruit hung in thick clusters.
"All Quipai is a garden," said the abbe, proudly.