Don't give me up: you can help me to see it all as you do.

Isn't it your duty, Sophie, if you love me ?" "Oh! I will pray for you, my darling," she answered, almost sobbing in the tenderness of her great heart, and laying her head upon his broad shoulder.

"I would not lose your love for all the world; but I feared you might be led to something--something that would prevent your loving either God or me.

Promise me something, dear: if you are ever in trouble or danger, and I'm not with you, come to me! No harm can reach us when we're together.

You need me, and I you." "I promise," replied Bressant.
In the short silence that followed, Sophie heard, though Bressant could not, a quick, excited, warbling voice calling her again and again by name.