“Hold your tongue, and go to your bed.”

It was not possible to go to mine, till I had arranged my thoughts.

What he stated must be correct. If otherwise, it is next to impossible that, in his position of intimacy, he should not have heard it. Families do not, I suppose, so easily forget one who is lost. There must have been only those three daughters.

I may lay me down in peace. Thou who seest not as man sees, wilt Thou make it peace, even for me?


CHAPTER VI. HER STORY.

“Gone to be married? gone to swear a peace?

Shall Lewis have Blanche, and Blanche these

provinces?”