Your existence for mine! Gift for gift! I do not wish you to die!" He did not try to understand her; but he took her burning hands between his own, and covered them with kisses.

And she, with trembling lip, regarded, through her long eyelashes, the brave man who now bent before her, saying: "I love you." Then, in that moment of infinite happiness, on the threshold of the new life which opened before her, she forgot all to think only of the reality, of the hero whose wife she was to be.

His wife! So, as in a dream, without thinking, without resisting, abandoning herself to the current which bore her along, not trying to take account of time or of the future, loving, and beloved, living in a sort of charmed somnambulism, the Tzigana watched the preparations for her marriage.
The Prince, with the impatience of a youth of twenty, had urged an early day for their union.

He announced his engagement to the society, at once Parisian and foreign, of which he formed a part; and this marriage of the Magyar with the Tzigana was an event in aristocratic circles.

There was an aroma of chivalrous romance about this action of Prince Andras, who was rich enough and independent enough to have married, if he had wished, a shepherdess, like the kings of fairy tales.
"Isn't it perfectly charming ?" exclaimed the little Baroness Dinati, enthusiastically.