Be equally frank with your sister as with me, and she
will win you, in spite of yourself, from the enchantments of Bigot,
Cadet, and the still more potent smiles you speak of that led you to
take the wrong turn in life."
"I doubt it is too late, Pierre! although I know that, were every
other friend in the world to forsake me, Amelie would not! She
would not even reproach me, except by excess of affection."
Philibert looked on his friend admiringly, at this panegyric of the
woman he loved. Le Gardeur was in feature so like his sister that
Philibert at the moment caught the very face of Amelie, as it were,
looking at him through the face of her brother. "You will not
resist her pleadings, Le Gardeur,"--Philibert thought it an
impossible thing. "No guardian angel ever clung to the skirts of a
sinner as Amelie will cling to you," said he; "therefore I have
every hope of my dear friend Le Gardeur Repentigny."
The two riders emerged from the forest, and drew up for a minute in
front of the hostelry of the Crown of France, to water their horses
at the long trough before the door and inform Dame Bedard, who ran
out to greet them, that Master Pothier was following with his
ambling nag at a gentle pace, as befitted the gravity of his
profession.
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