Consider me.

Pity me.

I ask no more." Straightforward and manly and modest--I appeal to any unprejudiced mind whether I should not have committed a mean action, if I had placed an evil construction on this?
"Am I understood ?" he asked.
I signed to him to give me his book, and relieved him of anxiety in these words: "If I had failed to understand you, I should have felt ashamed of myself.
May I show what you have written to Cristel ?" He smiled, more sweetly and pleasantly than I had seen him smile yet.
"If you wish it," he answered.

"I leave it entirely to you.

Thank you--and good morning." Having advanced a few steps on his way to the cottage, he paused, and reminded me of the tea-drinking: "Don't forget to-morrow evening, at seven o'clock.".