into my head? Isn't it perfectly clear? If this young man--who I admit

is very good-looking--were to make love to me, he would not think of

his cousin. In Paris, I know, good mothers do devote themselves in

this way to the happiness and welfare of their children; but we live

in the provinces, monsieur l'abbe."

"And," she continued, "I do not want, and Adolphe himself would not

want, a hundred millions brought at such a price."

"Madame, I said nothing about a hundred millions; that temptation