Seek your joy, then, in drying the eyes of the tearful.
Be happy in the blessings which Gratitude will shower upon your name." "Then you promise me this ?" "I am happy in being able to do anything that pleases you." "Nay, be not too indulgent.

I warn you that will only make me more exacting." "Speak, speak! would that there were no end to your wishes! Believe me, only then am I unhappy, when I see that nothing delights you, when you are sorrowful, when there's nothing you feel a liking for--then, indeed, I am very, very unhappy! Would you like to go to a watering-place this summer?
Where would you like to go?
Command me, where would you feel most happy ?" Fanny began reflecting.

Whither away?
Anywhere, if it only were far enough! Away from the neighbourhood of the Szentirmays, and never come back again! "Mehadia, I think, would be the nicest place.

That is far enough away anyhow," thought she.
"I'll engage for you beforehand the best quarters procurable for the coming summer: it really is a very pleasant place." "And I have something else to ask." Karpathy could scarce contain himself for joy.
"But it is a greater and more serious wish than all the rest." "All the better.

What is it ?" "I should like you to come with me everywhere, and to be with me always, and never leave me." Ah, this was more than a human heart could bear! The foolish old man went down on his knees beside the bed of his wife, and covered her hands with his tears and kisses.
"How have I deserved this happiness, this goodness from you!" he cried.
The lady smiled sadly, and for a long, long time she did not release her husband's hand from her own.