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It was one o'clock in the o to bed himself, observed that after such sad events every one stood in need of rest Noirtier would not say that the only rest he needed was to see his child, but wished her good-night, for grief and fatigue had randmother in bed; the fever had not abated, on the contrary her eyes glistened and she appeared to be suffering frorand all these signs of agitation

"No, my child, no," said Mada for your arrival, that I ht send for your father"

"My father?" inquired Valentine, uneasily

"Yes, I wish to speak to hirandmother's wish, the cause of which she did not know, and an instant afterwards Villefort entered "Sir," said Mada any circu she had no tie of this child?"

"Yes, madaed"

"Your intended son-in-law is named M Franz d'Epinay?"

"Yes, madame"

"Is he not the son of General d'Epinay as on our side, and as assassinated some days before the usurper returned from the Island of Elba?"

"The sahter of a Jacobin?"

"Our civil dissensions are now happily extinguished, mother," said Villefort; "M d'Epinay was quite a child when his father died, he knows very little of M Noirtier, and will meet him, if not with pleasure, at least with indifference"

"Is it a suitable arded with universal esteem"

"You approve of hithe whole of this conversation Valentine had remained silent "Well, sir," said Madame de Saint-Meran, after a few e, for I have but a short time to live"

"You, madame?" "You, dear mamma?" exclaimed M de Villefort and Valentine at the sa," continued the marchioness; "I must hurry you, so that, as she has no rande I a to otten, sir"

"Ah, ive a mother to my child"