She related to him before Josephine and Rose, how this honest soldier had come to them like a guardian angel and saved the whole family.

In vain he muttered that Rose had told him.
"Let me have the pleasure of telling it you my way," cried she, and told it diffusely, and kept him writhing.
The next thing was, Josephine had received no letter from him this month; the first month he had missed.

In vain did Rose represent that he was only a few days over his time.

The baroness became anxious, communicated her anxieties to Camille among the rest; and, by a torturing interrogatory, compelled him to explain to her before Josephine and them all, that ships do not always sail to a day, and are sometimes delayed.

But oh! he winced at the man's name; and Rose observed that he never mentioned it, nor acknowledged the existence of such a person as Josephine's husband, except when others compelled him.
Yet they were acquainted; and Rose sometimes wondered that he did not detract or sneer.
"I should," said she; "I feel I should." "He is too noble," said Josephine, "and too wise.