Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: come wicked and rebels, for then brother Edmond and I would go to heaven quite alone, and I should not like that; I can never agree with Edmond, he is so terribly pious, you are much better, though your faith may not be of the best kind. You say truly, terribly pious; said the old man, Oh heaven, when will it please thee to deliver us from these afflictions ? There comes Edmond along the garden, said the child, it will be better not to say anything to him about the wicked Eustace, for we shall have noise and disputes again; he does not like such things at all. Edmond entered, bowed, put his gun in the corner, and laid aside his pouch. A large dog came bounding up to the little girl, who played with him, and held up some pieces of broken bread. Where have you been this morning, my son? inquired his father. At the Intendant's, at the Lord of Ba?villa's, replied Edmond without raising his eyes. '' Yonder in Alais, where he will stop for a few days in consequence of the trial of the rebels. He commends himself to you, but he is rather surprised that you should have refused the appointment offered, and thinks that the Marshal would understand it still less. The Marshal, my son, began the father, notwithout emotion, there are many things that he cannot understand. I thank my God that I retired to this solitude more than ten years ago, for were I still in office, my conscience would compel me to resign it now, and that perhaps would be still more incomprehensible to these two valiant gentlemen. I neither envy nor admire their patriotism and God preserve our family from 'the fate of rendering such services to the king. Therefore, my dear, my beloved son, I once more give you a paternal warning to abandon these men, it would send me to the grave t...