She was talking quietly in the center of a group.

She greeted me with her usual gentle smile.

I felt relieved of an immense weight.

I was escaping a torment of such a painful and bitter nature, that the positive impression of my previous grief, freed from the disgraceful complications with which I had for a moment thought it aggravated, appeared almost pleasant.

Never had my heart rendered to this woman a more tender and more sincere homage.