I can but stand by and wait for the end.

If this Rose is not everything that is bad, her influence may be of some use to him.

But I want some one to undertake these negotiations, and I had hopes, Andre, that you would have been able to do so." Andre felt that all his efforts ought to be devoted to the interests of Sabine, but at the same time he could not leave the kind old man to the mercy of others, and by a display of absolute heroism he determined to accede to the broken-hearted father's desires and briefly told him that he was at his service.

Gandelu thanked him warmly, and Andre seating himself at the table, the two men entered into a long discussion as to the best means to be adopted.

It was finally decided that Andre should act with freedom and according to his own instincts, and that M.Gandelu should, to actual appearance, remain firm in the course he had entered upon, and should only be induced, by Andre's intercession, to adopt milder measures.