But, as a fair exchange, you on your side must make me a promise.

If Abbe Miollens--" "You know as well as I that you are of age." "I know as well as you that I never will be content without your consent.

Here once more as in the Engadine, I say, 'Either he or no one.'" "Did I not warn you that when once a formula has been pronounced, one is apt to keep on repeating it forever ?" "Either he or no one: that is my last word.

Would you not rather that it should be he?
Are you willing to accept him ?" "I will submit." "With a good grace ?" "With resignation." "With cheerful resignation ?" "I shall certainly do my best to acquire it; or, rather, if he makes you happy, I shall welcome him all the days of my life; in the contrary case, I will repeat, morning and evening, like Mme.

de Lorcy: 'You would not listen to me; you ought to have believed me.'" "It is agreed; you are a good father, and now we are in perfect harmony," she replied, impulsively seizing his two hands, and pressing them in her own.
He watched her a moment between his half-closed eyes, and then he cried, half resentfully: "But, _mon Dieu_ why do you love this man ?" She replied, in a low voice: "Because I love him; this is my sole reason; but I find it good." "Certainly most decisive.