Now, is it possible to be angry on that account?
You can keep him with you, make him marry some other person, but you cannot prevent him from giving me his heart.
He will die without me, as I shall if obliged to part from him.

When he is not by my side I feel that he is really near me, and that we will never be entirely separated, since we carry each other's life with us.
I have only to close my eyes to re-see him when I wish, so firmly is his image impressed upon my soul.

Our whole natures are thus closely united for life.

And could you wish to draw us away from this union?
Oh! Monseigneur, it is divine; do not try to prevent us loving each other!" He looked at her in her simple working-dress, so fresh, so unpretending, and attractive.

He listened to her as she repeated the canticle of their love in a voice that both fascinated and troubled him, and which grew stronger by degrees.