"You are very incredulous, Mam'selle (cried Agatha); but you'll never be able to make me believe otherwise than I do now. Lord! I still tremble at the recollection of what I suffered, when I heard the armour fall with such a crash a few minutes before my Lord's death. I was alone with him, and that, to be sure, augmented my terror; for my lady, overcome by grief, had fainted, and was carried from the room by the other attendants."
"I have heard say, indeed (cried Floretta, who had hitherto listened to the words of Agatha with the most profound attention) that those warnings of death are very common."
"God, of his infinite mercy (said Madeline) may perhaps give such warnings to the wicked, in order to awaken them to repentance; but to the good, to those whose lives prepare them at any hour for his summons, I never can believe he does."
"I shall enter into no argument about the matter (cried Agatha); for nothing could persuade me out of my own opinion."
