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"When will it be our turn to think of these things? Oh, Valentine, you who have so randpapa, try to make him answer--Soon"

"And do you," said Valentine, "depend on randpapa?"

"Yes," cried Morrel, " as you are not mine, Valentine, I shall always think I may lose you"

"Oh," replied Valentine with a convulsive movement, "oh, indeed, Maximilian, you are too timid for an officer, for a soldier who, they say, never knows fear Ah, ha, ha!" she burst into a forced and h, her arms stiffened and twisted, her head fell back on her chair, and she remained motionless The cry of terror which was stopped on Noirtier's lips, seemed to start from his eyes Morrel understood it; he knew hethe bell violently; the housemaid who had been in Mademoiselle Valentine's room, and the servant who had replaced Barrois, ran in at the same moment Valentine was so pale, so cold, so inani to as said to them they were seized with the fear which pervaded that house, and they flew into the passage crying for help Mada out at that moment; they heard the cause of the disturbance "I told you so!" exclaimed Madame de Villefort "Poor child!"