For my part I am full of doubts.

Her happiness is the only thing of consequence.

Let her belong to the one who will love her best!" Indescribable emotion had now come over both men.

As Guillaume heard his brother's broken words, the cry of a love that trembled at the thought of possible weakness, he did for a moment waver.

With a dreadful heart-pang he stammered despairingly: "Ah! Marie, whom I love so much! Marie, whom I would have rendered so happy!" At this Pierre could not restrain himself; he rose and cried: "Ah! you see that you love her still and cannot renounce her....