No one
will carry the standard of his King further into the ranks of the
republicans than Henri Larochejaquelin."
"I know one, Charles, who will, at any rate, be beside him."
"But he is so full of glorious confidence--so certain of success. He
will go to battle with the assured hope of victory. I shall fight
expecting nothing but defeat."
"You are melancholy, tonight, my love: something ails you beyond your
dread of the coming struggle."
"Can I be other than melancholy? I have no hope."
"No hope, Charles. Oh! do not say you have no hope."
"None in this world, Victorine. The Indian widow, when she throws
herself on the burning pile, with a noble courage does what she has been
taught to look upon as a sacred duty, but she cannot but dread the fire
which is to consume her."
"You would not liken yourself to her?"
"Through the mercy of our blessed Saviour I am not so mistaken in my
creed; but I am hardly less calamitous in my fate: but it is not the
prospect of my own sufferings which disturb me; I at any rate may be
assured of an honourable, even an enviable death.
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