I shall have money then, and perhaps the command of a fine vessel.

She will not refuse me when she knows how dearly I love you, and even should your father--the father you tell of--come home, you will be true to me, Beatrice, will you not ?" "Yes, I will be true," she replied--and, to do her justice, she meant it at the time.

Her father's return seemed vague and uncertain; it might take place in ten or twenty years--it might never be.

Hugh offered her freedom and liberty in two years.
"If others should seek your love," he said, "should praise your beauty, and offer you rank or wealth, you will say to yourself that you will be true to Hugh ?" "Yes," she said, firmly, "I will do so." "Two years will soon pass away," said he.

"Ah, Beatrice," he continued, "I shall leave you next Thursday; give me all the hours you can.