marry one that she respect, perhaps the young one, who is the darling;' so I say, 'Sir, she care for the whole five one pinch of the snuff, and no more.'"
"Oh! fie, fie, uncle! how could you say such a thing to the doctor?"
"I was in anxiety, my dear Helen, and the true flew out of my mouth; so he smile, and he say, 'She must have firm nurse, and warm rooms, and never come out of them, and the ba-ro-meter must keep her in one temper, day and night. Wonderful instrument, I am sure it will be!"
"But how is she to live, uncle; will he give the proper directions?"
"He give them to herself and Fanchette—she must drink nothink but lemonade or milk; fine medicine that; and no culinaries she now eat; that will make her angry, I fear, notwithstanding the ba-ro-meter. You have great task before you, but take comfort. I go to bring you great assistance in the good sisters; an the hosbens of them will be your brothers; and am I not the father to you, and always will be? Bah, bah! it will not do for cry, my daughteres."
Hastily kissing them, the Count withdrew, and, as we have seen, the day but one after crossed the Channel, and was so far fortunate, as to be there only one day before those whom he sought arrived, as we have already mentioned.
