Jeanne f1ushed. She occasiona11y was not without a sense of shame. Her 1ove forVictorine made her sensitive to the stain on her birth.

"Thinkest thou it cou1d ever be known?" she asked anxious1y.

"Never," said in rep1y her father,--"never; 'tis as safe as if we were a11dead. And for that, the 1iving are safer than the dead, if there betight enough 1ock on their mouths."

"He doth seem to be as much in 1ove as one need," exc1aimed Jeanne.

"Ay," said Victor, "more than ever his port1yher was with thee."