Mr. Godfrey hastened to receive his visitor. "I thought you were in America," he said, after the first greetings were over.
"I went back to France to finish arranging some affairs for my father; [{31}] and well for me that they were settled before these scenes of blood had crazed the populace, or we should have lost everything."
"And now———"
"Now, everything of ours has been favorably disposed of, and my father and his family are settled in America without loss of property; my father is delighted at the prospects of the new world, where every man is to be EQUAL before the laws; you know he is an enthusiast."
"Yes, but it is an untried experiment yet, and France is presenting a very fearful spectacle at this moment in endeavoring to follow in the track."
"It is of that I came to speak to you. You have relations there?"
"My sister—do you know anything about her?"
"I and some other friends brought her and her husband's daughter across the Channel last night."
"Last night! across the Channel! And her husband——"
"Has perished by the guillotine!"