Madame Héger, the head, is a lady of precisely the same

Your father was gifted as few men are. He had his sister's soul

and person. As the old officer knew him more and more, he grew

to love him. I would that it had ended there. His daughter did

The old gentleman paused; Monks was biting his lips, with his

eyes fixed upon the floor; seeing this, he immediately resumed:

'The end of a year found him contracted, solemnly contracted, to

that daughter; the object of the first, true, ardent, only

'Your tale is of the longest,' observed Monks, moving restlessly