'You were brought up in like manner by two old people.'

'Ah! but they loved me. Besides, my tutor and his were as different
as light and darkness.'

'And your poor little sister,' I said.

'She must have won his gratitude by her assistance. He will have
learnt to love her when he returns. Come, ma mie, you must forgive
him. If you knew what his captivity was, you could not help it. He
was the play-fellow of my boyhood, and if I can help him to the more
noble path, my aid must not be wanting, either for his sake or that
of my sister.'

How wise and how noble these two years had made my dear husband; how
unlike the raw lad I had met at Whitehall! It was the training in
self-discipline that he had given himself for my sake--yes, and for
that of his country and his God.




CHAPTER VI.

VICTORY DEARLY BOUGHT



No difficulty was made about enrolling the Chevalier d'Aubepine as a
volunteer in the regiment of Conde, and as the lettre de cachet, as