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"O loin de moi cette exigeance!" cried Gabriella, with energy, "Ne sais-je pas bien que ton bon esprit, juste emule de ton excellent cœur, te fera parler lorsqu'il le faudra? Ne me confierai-je pas à toi, dont la seule étude est le bonheur des autres?"[1]
Juliet, not more penetrated by this kindness, than affected by a facile resignation, that shewed the taming effect of misfortune upon the natural vivacity of her friend, could answer only by caresses and tears.
"Eh mon oncle?" continued Gabriella; "mon tout-aimable et si pieux oncle? où est il?"[2]
"Monseigneur l'Eveque?" cried Juliet, again changing colour; "Oh oui!
- ↑ "Oh far from me by any such insistence! Know I not well that thy admirable judgment, just counterpart of thy excellent heart, will guide thee to speak when it is right? Shall I not entirely confide in thee?—In thee, whose sole study has been always the good and happiness of others?"
- ↑ "And my uncle! My so amiable, so pious uncle? Where is he?"
