Can I ever be proud of your love again ?" He paused, overcome with emotion.

"What it has been to me!" he cried.
"I walked among my fellows as if I were a colossus.

It inspired me at my work.

I felt that there was nothing great I was not capable of, and all because Grizel loved me." She stood trembling with delight at what he said, and with apprehension at what he seemed to threaten.

His head being bent, he could not see her, and amid his grief he wondered a little what she was doing now.
"But you spoke"-- she said it timidly, as if to refer to the matter at all was cruel of her--"you spoke as if I was disgracing you because I could not conceal my love.