16/41 He'll go to Paris, then. At all events, he'll reenter the service. The occupations incident to his position will be a powerful diversion; he'll no longer dream of Clementine, whom I will have fixed securely. We will have to furnish him the wherewithal to knock about the world; but all sacrifices of money are nothing in comparison with the happiness I wish to save." Madame Renault, who was a woman of thrift, blamed her son's generosity a little. "We've already done too much in giving him back his life. |