Officers and soldiers decided that he should be interred at their expense, after the experiments of Doctor Martout were completed.
And to give him a tomb worthy of his glory, they voted an assessment of two days' pay.
Every one who wore an epaulette visited M.Renault's laboratory; the Colonel of cuirassiers went there several times--in hopes of meeting Clementine.

But Leon's betrothed kept herself out of the way.
She was happier than any woman had ever been, this pretty little Clementine.

No cloud longer disturbed the serenity of her fair brow.
Free from all anxieties, with a heart opened to Hope, she adored her dear Leon, and passed her days in telling him so.

She herself had pressed the publication of the bans.
"We will be married," said she, "the day after the resuscitation of the Colonel.

I intend that he shall give me away, I want him to bless me.
That is certainly the least he can do for me, after all I have done for him.