There, I will not twice in one day ask you for your heart: it would be to lower the mother, and give the daughter the pain of refusing it, and the regret, sure to come one day, of having refused it.

I will discover the meaning of it all by myself." She went away with a gentle sigh; and Rose was cut to the heart by her words; she resolved, whatever it might cost her and Josephine, to make a clean breast this very day.

As she was one of those who act promptly, she went instantly in search of her sister, to gain her consent, if possible.
Now, the said Josephine was in the garden walking with Camille, and uttering a wife's tender solicitudes.
"And must you leave me?
must you risk your life again so soon; the life on which mine depends ?" "My dear, that letter I received from headquarters two days ago, that inquiry whether my wound was cured.

A hint, Josephine--a hint too broad for any soldier not to take." "Camille, you are very proud," said Josephine, with an accent of reproach, and a look of approval.
"I am obliged to be.

I am the husband of the proudest woman in France." "Hush! not so loud: there is Dard on the grass." "Dard!" muttered the soldier with a word of meaning.