I watched the carriage and its dust till I saw it no more, because of the wood that lies between here and the road.

You pursue them, sir ?" "To the world's end, madame, if I must." She sighed and opened her lips to speak, but no words came; and without more, I turned and left her, and set my face to follow the carriage.

I was, I think, half-mad with anger and bewilderment, for I did not think that it would be time well spent to ascend to the town and obtain a vehicle or a horse; but I pressed on afoot, weary and in pain as I was, along the hot white road.

For now indeed my heart was on fire, and I knew that beside Marie Delhasse everything was nothing.

So at first imperceptibly, slowly, and unobserved, but at the last with a swift resistless rush, the power of her beauty and of the soul that I had seemed to see in her won upon me; and that moment, when I thought that she had yielded to her enemy and mine, was the flowering and bloom of my love for her.
Where had they gone?
Not to the duke's house, or I should have met them as I rode down earlier in the morning.