The precipitation of the two young people brought it about that neither Clementine's cheeks nor Leon's received the offering intended for them.
And the mandarins on the etagere, who fully expected to hear two kisses, heard but one.

And Leon was confounded, and Clementine blushed up to her ears, and the two lovers retreated a step, intently regarding the roses of the carpet which will remain eternally graven upon their memories.
In the eyes of Leon Renault, Clementine was the most beautiful creature in the world.

He had loved her for little more than three years, and it was somewhat on her account that he had taken the journey to Russia.

In 1856 she was too young to marry, and too rich for an engineer with a salary of 2,400 francs to properly make pretentions to her hand.

Leon, who was a good mathematician, proposed to himself the following problem: "Given--one young girl, fifteen and a half years old, with an income of 8,000 francs, and threatened with the inheritance from Mlle.