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My happiness, however, was evident, and I ht have spared my words

For the first half-hour all three of us talked together

Then M Charnot pushed back his armchair, and ere left to ourselves

He had taken up a newspaper, but I am pretty sure he held it upside down In any case hebetween the lines, for he did not turn the page the whole evening

He often cast a glance over the top of the paper, folded in four, to the corner where ere sitting, and from us his eyes travelled to a prettyover the rets, what hopes were struggling in his hed, and had not we been there I believe he would have wept

To htful as a wo every instant within me, of perfect rest of heart; the certainty of happiness for all my life to come

Yes, my happiness travelled beyond the present, as I looked into the future and saw along series of days passed by her side; and while she spoke to reat wings ofus

We spoke inair and the confused roar of the city

"I am to be your friend and counsellor?" said she

"Always"

"You pros, and that we shall act in concert?"

"I do"