I should love you less--perhaps I should not love you at all, though that would be very difficult--if you were to begin to live as all those live whom I would not have.

When I can follow you, I will follow you; wherever you are will be my duty, wherever you are will be my happiness.

And if the day comes when you can not take me, the day when you must go alone, well! Jean, on that day, I promise you to be brave, and not take your courage from you.
"And now, Monsieur le Cure, it is not to him, it is to you that I am speaking; I want you to answer me, not him.

Tell me, if he loves me, and feels me worthy of his love, would it be just to make me expiate so severely the fortune that I possess?
Tell me, should he not agree to be my husband ?" "Jean," said the old priest, gravely, "marry her.

It is your duty, and it will be your happiness!" Jean approached Bettina, took her in his arms, and pressed upon her brow the first kiss.
Bettina gently freed herself, and addressing the Abbe, said: "And now, Monsieur l'Abbe, I have still one thing to ask you.