Remember that it had been three years since we bid each other good bye.

I remembered distinctly what you were when you went away, and, with imagination helping memory a little, I had reconstructed my Leon entire.

But if you had no longer resembled him! What would have become of me in the presence of a new Leon, when I had formed the pleasant habit of loving the other ?" "You make me tremble.

But your first greeting reassured me in advance." "Tut, sir! Don't speak of that first greeting, or you will make me blush a second time.

Let us speak rather of that poor colonel who made me shed so many tears.