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"But," said Danglars, whose weak ht of this pitiless logic,evident premeditation and force of will, "what is your reason for this refusal, Eugenie? what reason do you assign?"

"My reason?" replied the young girl "Well, it is not that the reeable than any other; no, M Andrea Cavalcanti ures as a very good specimen of his kind It is not, either, that my heart is less touched by hiirl's reason, which I consider quite beneath me I actually love no one, sir; you know it, do you not? I do not then see ithout real necessity, I should encue said, 'Nothing too much'? and another, 'I carry all ht these two aphorisms in Latin and in Greek; one is, I believe, from Phaedrus, and the other from Bias Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life--for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes--I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my oill, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free"

"Unhappy girl, unhappy girl!"experience the solidity of the obstacle he had so suddenly encountered

"Unhappy girl," replied Eugenie, "unhappy girl, do you say, sir? No, indeed; the exclamation appears quite theatrical and affected Happy, on the contrary, for what a to be well received I like a favorable reception; it expands the countenance, and those around ly I possess a share of wit, and a certain relative sensibility, which enables eneral, for the support of ood, like the et at its contents I am rich, for you have one of the first fortunes in France I a as the fathers of the Porte Saint-Martin and Gaiete, who disinherit their daughters for not giving therandchildren Besides, the provident law has deprived you of the power to disinherit me, at least entirely, as it has also of the power to co, beautiful, witty, somewhat talented, as the comic operas say, and rich--and that is happiness, sir--why do you call me unhappy?"