Will you follow me thither ?" "I---follow you ?" "I hesitated long before finding you out, so much did I fear a repulse.
I set out to-morrow.

Quit Paris, leave the world which has slandered you, and come with me.

In a fortnight we shall be man and wife." "You are not in earnest!" "May I expire at your feet if I am not! Do you want me to sign the oath with my blood ?" "Rise," she said in a broken voice.

"Have I at last found a man to love me and compensate me for all the abuse that has been showered on my head?
A thousand times I thank you, not for what you are doing for me, but for the balm you pour on my wounded spirit.

Even if you were to say to me now, 'After all, I am obliged to give you up' the pleasure of knowing you esteem me would make up for all the rest.