forfeit of your word, which you have pledged to me
and mine. Remember, not only have you offered
love unto my ward, but you have been accepted."

"Even so:" exclaimed Montigny; "and may--"

"Call nothing down that might become your
harm," said the advocate admonishingly: "Rain has
before now become transformed to hailstones, and
done much damage; and dews descending so benignly,
have once, it is said, in form of rain, swelled to a
deluge that has drowned the world. May the skies be
still propitious to you, Claude Montigny. Although
temptation burn as fiercely as dogdays, do not fall
beneath it, for less hurtful were a hundred sunstrokes
to the body, than to the soul is one temptation that
hath overcome it. Again farewell." And he pressed
Claude's hand convulsively, then tossed it from him
half disdainfully, and both departed from the grounds.

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