Karl Nibor is a man of middle height, very fair and very slight.

Possibly he carries a good forty years, but one would not credit him with more than thirty-five.

He wears a moustache and imperial; is lively, a good conversationist, agreeable and enough of a man of the world to amuse the ladies.

But Clementine did not have the pleasure of his conversation.

Her aunt had taken her to Moret in order to remove her from the pangs of fear as well as from the intoxications of victory..