La bataille ne sera livree que demain, mais la victoire est decidee ce soir.

Pierre a promis; et les Croises se fient a sa parole, comme les Israelites se fiaient a celle de Moise et de Josue." As a companion portrait to this, Emily chose to depict Harold on the eve of the battle of Hastings.

It appears to me that her _devoir_ is superior to Charlotte's in power and in imagination, and fully equal to it in language; and that this, in both cases, considering how little practical knowledge of French they had when they arrived at Brussels in February, and that they wrote without the aid of dictionary or grammar, is unusual and remarkable.

We shall see the progress Charlotte had made, in ease and grace of style, a year later.
In the choice of subjects left to her selection, she frequently took characters and scenes from the Old Testament, with which all her writings show that she was especially familiar.

The picturesqueness and colour (if I may so express it), the grandeur and breadth of its narrations, impressed her deeply.