My affliction is my happiness, when you say cruel things to me.

I live in my fool's paradise; I don't hear you." He tried to draw her nearer to him.

"Come, my angel; let me kiss you." She made a second attempt to release herself; and this time, she wrenched her hand out of his grasp with a strength for which he was not prepared.
That fiercest anger which turns the face pale, was the anger that had possession of Cristel as she took refuge with her father.

"You asked me to bear with that man," she said, "because he paid you a good rent.

I tell you this, father; my patience is coming to an end.