Helene, implored by the superior, grew paler than ever at that name, but she answered:
"Yes, my mother, I forgive him. But it is because I go to rejoin him whom he killed."
At four o'clock in the afternoon she breathed her last.
She asked to be buried at the spot where Gaston used to untie the boat with which he came to visit her; and her last wishes were complied with.
And there she sleeps beneath the sod, pure as the flowers that blossom over her grave: and like them, broken by the cruel gusts that sweep the delicate blossoms so mercilessly down, and wither them with a breath.
END OF "THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER."
[Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors, present in the original text, have been corrected.
On page 439 and page 441, "Tahouet" was changed to "Talhouet".
On page 442, an extra quotation mark following "In Heaven's name" was removed.