known, in a covert manner, that they were together, and were both safe. And why, Gabriella demanded, could not Juliet write herself? 'Alas!' Juliet replied, 'I must not even be named!' 'Eh, pour quoi?--n'a-t-tu pas vu tes parens?--Peut on te voir sans t'aimer? te connoitre sans te cherir? Non, ma Julie, non! tu n'a qu'a te montrer.'[12] [Footnote 12: 'And why? Hast thou not seen thy relations?--Canst thou be seen, and not loved?--known, and not cherished? No, my Juliet, no! thou hast only to appear!'] Juliet, changing colour, dejectedly, and not without confusion, besought her friend, though for reasons that could neither be assigned nor surmounted, to dispense, at present, with all personal narration. Yet, upon perceiving the anxious surprise occasioned by a request so little expected, she dissolved into tears, and offered every communication, in preference to causing even transitory pain to her best friend. 'O loin de moi cette exigence!' cried Gabriella, with energy, 'Ne sais-je pas bien que ton bon esprit, juste emule de ton excellent coeur, te fera parler lorsqu'il le faudra? Ne me confierai-je pas a toi, dont la seule etude est le bonheur des autres?'[13] [Footnote 13: 'Oh far from me by any such insistence! Know I not well that thy admirable judgment, just counterpart of thy excellent heart, will guide thee to speak when it is right? Shall I not entirely confide in thee?--In thee, whose sole study has been always the good and happiness of others?'] Juliet, not more penetrated by this kindness, than affected by a facile resignation, that shewed the taming effect of misfortune upon the natural vivacity of her friend, could answer only by caresses and tears. 'Eh mon oncle?' continued Gabriella; 'mon tout-aimable et si pieux oncle? ou est il?'[14] [Footnote 14: 'And my uncle! My so amiable, so pious uncle? Where is he?'] 'Monseigneur l'Eveque?' cried Juliet, again changing colour; 'Oh oui! tout-aimable! sans tache et sans reproche!--Il sera bientot, je crois, ici;--ou j'aurois de ses nouvelles; et alors--ma destinee me sera connue!'[15] [Footnote 15: 'My lord the Bishop?--Oh yes! yes!--amiable indeed!--pure!--without blemish!--He will soon, I believe, be here; or I shall have some intelligence from him; and then--my fate will be known to me!'] A deep sigh tried to swallow these last words. Gabriella looked at her, for a moment, with re-awakened earnestness, as if repentant of her own acquiescence; but the sight of encreasing disturbance in the countenance of Juliet, checked her rising impatience; and she quietly said, 'Ah! s'il arrive ici!--si je le revois,--j'eprouverai encore, au milieu de tant de desolation, un mouvement de joie!--tel que toi, seule, jusqu'a ce moment, a su m'en inspirer!'[16] [Footnote 16: 'Ah, should he come hither!--should I be blest again by his sight, I should feel, once more, even in the midst of my desolation, a sensation of joy--such as thou, only, as yet, hast been able to re-awaken!']