As Gabriella is no longer a prisoner, you will have future opportunities of seeing her." "I must embrace them soon," said he, sadly.

"I expect to leave this place before long,--my friends, and my country." "You, Richard ?" I exclaimed.

Then I remembered the remarks I had heard on commencement day, of his being sent to Europe to complete his education.

I regretted to lose the champion of my childhood, the friend of my youth, and my countenance expressed my emotion.
"I have a great deal to say to you, Gabriella," said he, in a low tone.
"May I see you to-morrow ?" "Certainly,--that is, I think, I hope so." A glance that flashed on me from the doorway arrested my stammering tongue.

Ernest was standing there, observing the interview, and the dark passion of which his mother had warned me clouded his brow.