After all, why did I refuse him?
What should I have sacrificed by marrying him?
Rose, write to him, and say--say--I was taken by surprise, I--I"-- a violent flood of tears interrupted the sentence.
Rose flung her arms round her neck.

"My beautiful Josephine marry that creature?
Let house and lands go a thousand times sooner.

I love my sister a thousand times better than the walls of this or any other house." "Come, come," cried Edouard, "you are forgetting ME all this time.

Do you really think I am the sort of man to stand by with my hands in my pockets, and let her marry that cur, or you be driven out of Beaurepaire?
Neither, while I live." "Alas! dear boy," sighed Josephine, "what can you do ?" "I'll soon show you.

From this hour forth it is a duel between that Perrin and me.