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94 THE SIX SISTEES OE THE VALLEYS. of my life on bread and water, or die for your release." "You wrong me to speak thus, sister. No. Must I then turn comforter, and bid you repose on the wisdom that numbers our hairs ? You did a noble duty ; from love to you I shared the danger, and love shall support me to the end. But speak to me still as you have ever done. Let our last night together, if such it should be, be blessed. Eepeat me those verses of our favourite chapter, which you quoted in the vineyards of Lucerna in October last, when the leaves were beginning to fall." After a pause Marguerite calmly re- peated the words, "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous : nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Where- fore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees." Heb. xii. 11, 12. How burning do these passages come
THE TWINS. 95 from tlie lip of suffering, and seem like voices from heaven when felt and uttered by an agonized soul in the gloomy cell. " Thanks, thanks," said Madeleine, "I feel more tranquil, and I can bear to look back on our past home scenes without that same agony of heart." "We must pray for them all this night; thank God we desired to bring up our children for Him, and sought their spiri- tual welfare first. There are Laurent, Mag- dalene, Bertin, Cyprian, Merle, Susanne, Revel, and our bright Ardoine, and dear Raynald with his generous impulses. I trust he may escape, and yet realize the visions of bliss which he has cherished from childhood. And then look at our little flock of every age ; the sweet prattle of the babes and the voices of the boys and girls oh, indeed, my heart aches when I see all this, and then feel this cold, damp stone. Here, sister, let me cover you with my ;
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CHAPTER IV. THE MOTHER'S GEAVE. Ech
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THE MOTHER'S GEAVE. 41 young man wh
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THE RACK. 261 Kim when torture or d
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THE BANQUET. 269 weapons—weapons
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THE BANQUET. 271 ancient oak table
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THE BANQUET. 275 the Duke has allow
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THE COLETTE. 287 Eaynald, " there i
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THE MAEQUIS. 289 while in the foreg
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THE PROSELYTISEK. 301 the past ; a
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CHAPTER XXXI. THE AECHBISHOP. There
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THE AECHBISHOP. 307 language !) the
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THE AECHBISHOP. 309 you'll have of
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THE AECHBISHOP. 315 the Ordination
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THE MARRIAGE. 321 The Archbishop, m
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TIIE SEXTET. 329 be she who lias su
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THE SENTRY. 331 I look at your shoe
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THE SENTKY. 337 now. There, you can
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MALVICINO. 339 E chard, " do you no
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APPENDIX. CHAPTER I. The antiquity
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APPENDIX. 361 edict, promising one
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