His most ardent wish is that I should be your husband and his successor." "How good he is?
And I, wicked girl that I am, repay his goodness with base ingratitude.

Ah me! How shall I tell him ?" "You repay his goodness with base ingratitude?
You speak in riddles, my Angela." "Since the waves washed me to his feet, a little child, the abbe has cherished me with all the tenderness of a mother, all the devotion of a father.

He has been everything to me; and now you are everything to me.

I love you better than I love him.

Don't you think I am a wicked girl ?" And she put her arm within mine, and looking at me with love-beaming eyes, caressing my cheek with her hand.
"I will grant you absolution, and award you no worse penance than an embrace, _ma fille cherie_," said the abbe, who had returned to the veranda just in time to overhear Angela's confession.