To the point then; now that my manner is no longer irritating, now that I am going to die, Camille Dujardin, my old comrade, have you the heart to refuse me?
am I to die unhappy ?" "No; no: I will do whatever you like." "You will marry that poor girl, then ?" "Yes." "Aha! did not I always say he was a good fellow?
Clench the nail; give me your honor." "I give you my honor to marry her, if I live." "You take a load off me; may Heaven reward you.

In one hour those poor women, whose support I had promised to be, will lose their protector; but I give them another in you.

We shall not leave that family in tears, Rose in shame, and your child without a name." Dujardin stared at the speaker.

What new and devilish deception was this?
"My child!" he faltered.

"What child ?" "Ah," said Raynal, "what a fool I was! That is the first thing I ought to have told you.