He will lay out our lives, not waste them."
There was nothing to hinder Raynal from carrying out this sacred
request: for the 24th brigade had ceased to exist: already thinned by
hard service, it was reduced to a file or two by the fatal bastion. It
was incorporated with the 12th; and Raynal rode heavy at heart to Paris,
with a black scarf across his breast.
CHAPTER XXIII.
You see now into what a fatal entanglement two high-minded young ladies
were led, step by step, through yielding to the natural foible of their
sex--the desire to hide everything painful from those they love, even at
the expense of truth.
A nice mess they made of it with their amiable dishonesty. And pray take
notice that after the first White Lie or two, circumstances overpowered
them, and drove them on against their will. It was no small part of all
their misery that they longed to get back to truth and could not.
We shall see presently how far they succeeded in that pious object, for
the sake of which they first entered on concealments. But first a word
is due about one of the victims of their amiable, self-sacrificing
lubricity.
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