racefully caressing manner, "as we are going to

ings, will you?" added Blanch

ticularly as I should not well know how t

o have told you sooner what

one of two things must be. Either you were right, or else you were wrong, to hide this from me. If you were

us decision, Rose resumed, while sh

or two successive nights

oldier, drawing himself

g visitor-he is

!" cried Dagobe

with blue eyes,

s!" and Dagobert agai

umed Rose, placing the tip of one for

lbow, "they might be as long as that, and it would have nothing to do with it. Fair, and with blue eyes. Pray

t, you have begun t

ry commencement

t, is there to be

not," said Rose,

st forever," added Blanche, shari

weet, innocent faces gracefully animated by a frank, ingenuous laugh, he reflected that they would not be so gay if they had

!" he said. "I like so

ls, he added in a gruff voice: "Yes, I like to see you laugh-but not when you receive fair visitors with blue eye

e tell you i

ver tell storie

er fib," said the soldie

and fair locks in the world must come in by one of those two ways-and, if they had tried it, the dog and I, who have both of us q

r to trifle with his kindness. They exchanged a glance, and Rose, taking in her little hand the coarse, broad palm of

again!-He has

has a name. I

rt? Oh, you will see and love, a

d-"Love your beautiful Gabriel?-that's as it may be. I must first know-" Then

at, Da

told me that, poor as she was, and with our little growing Agricola on her hands, she had taken in a poor deser

om whom

know that

iel of your own-there is the more

yours? I am on thor

at Blanche and I are accustomed to fall

n your cradle. I was never tired o

ago, we had just fallen

ed Dagobert. "Since you were

dream-how else wo

sister go on

"well and good! To be sure, I was tranquil enough in any case-becaus

e both dreamt t

both th

orning when we awoke we relate

were exact

children; and what wa

ue eyes, and so handsome and benign a countenance, that we elapsed our hands as if to pray to him. Then he told us, in a soft

fair face over us, looked at us for a long time in silence, with so much go

r to go to our hearts. At length, to our great sorrow, Gabriel quitte

make his a

ted the moment of sleep, to see if our friend

you kept on rubbing your eyes last evening, and pretending to be half asleep. I wager,

Dago

as you would to Spoil-sport: Lie down, Dagob

other, such touching, such noble counsels, that the next day, Rose and I spent our

re whispering all along the road this morning; an

we were thinki

we love him as wel

ly one betwee

mother one

t-are you not als

know, I shall finish by bei

d by day-he is our

lk of him all day, and dream of him all

your two orphans, whom yo

t upon earth," added Blanc

let you have your Gabriel. I felt sure that Spoil sport and myself could take our rest in quiet. After all, there is nothing so astonishing in what you tell me; yo

ds them to us. Did she not tell us that orphan children were watched over by guardian ange

the matter of defence, I prefer the dog; he is less fair than your

ou are, Dagobert

ou can laugh a

h a grave air, "dreams will sometimes come true. In Spain, two of the Empress's dragoons, comrades of mine, dreamt, the night before their death, that they would be poisoned by the monks-and so it happened. If you continue to dream of this fair angel Gabriel, it i

think of her we are n

she died before she had time to do so, and that which I have to tell broke her heart-as it nearly did mine. I put off this communication as long as I could, taking for pretext

ded the two maidens, with an

ich he appeared to reflect, the vet

ld man was obstinate in not quitting his trade. He had a heart of gold and a head of iron, just like his son. You may suppose, my children, tha

Empire! what is

e, whom he loved because he was one of them: Here, children! You wish to play at nobility! You shall be nobles.

girls, joining their

ig

ldier, who was afterwards promoted to be king. This flattered us; for, if it was not one, it was the other. And so,

he not, Dagobert?-mo

lendid in his full uniform, and could put fire into the soldiers' hearts. With him to lead, we would have charged up into Heaven i

s good as he was

nnon. With strength and courage like that, how could he be otherwise than good? It is then about nineteen years ago, not far from this place-on the spot I showed you before we arrived at the village-

renc

r, sir, to a countryman!'-'A Frenchman, who fights against France,' replied the general, 'is no longer my countryman; he is a traitor, and I'd never surrender to a traitor!' And, wou

e, and a rich crimson mantled their cheeks

der him; and, to perform the journey, he mounted Jovial, who had not been wounded that day. We arrived at Warsaw, and there it was that the general first saw your mother. She was called the Pearl of Warsaw; that is

Rose uttered a piercing cry, and