31/33 I saw at once that it was a trial, in which I could do nothing. They were very great people; different from us, you know." "They refused to let them marry ?" "Oh, no! Sylvestre did not ask; they never had the opportunity of refusing. No, no; it was I.I said to him: 'Sylvestre, this can never be-never!' He was convinced against his will. Then she spoke to her parents on her own account. They carried her off, and there was an end of it." "He never saw her again." "Never; he would not have wished it; and then she lived a very little time. |