Come, is it agreed ?" The baroness's manner was full of tact, and the latter sentences were said with an open kindliness of manner.

There was nothing to prevent Perrin from dropping the subject, and remaining good friends.
A gentleman or a lover would have so done.

Monsieur Perrin was neither.
He said bitterly, "You refuse me, then." The tone and the words were each singly too much for the baroness's pride.

She answered coldly but civilly,-- "I do not refuse you.

I do not take an affront into consideration." "Be calm, mamma; no affront whatever was intended." "Ah! here is one that is more reasonable," cried Perrin.
"There are men," continued Josephine without noticing him, "who look to but one thing--interest.