12/20 The fact is that he had eyes for nothing but her. The grotto of Polyphemus and the cave of Caecus would have appeared to him pleasanter than the gardens of Armida, if Clementine's little red jacket had been promenading in them. "We will not go far off, and, besides, won't we come here every day ?" The coming marriage was a thing so well settled, that it had not even been spoken of on the previous evening. Nothing remained to be done but to publish the bans and fix the date. Clementine, simple and honest heart, expressed herself without any false modesty concerning an event so entirely expected, so natural and so agreeable. |