What do we wait for now?
Are you deaf to the voice of Happiness which calls you?
Let us go to the temple of the laws, then you shall follow me to the foot of the altar; a priest shall consecrate our bonds, and we will go through life leaning on one another, I like the oak sustaining weakness, thou like the graceful ivy ornamenting the emblem of strength."[10] Clementine remained a few moments without answering, as if stunned by the Colonel's vehement rhetoric.

"Monsieur Fougas," she said to him, "I have always obeyed you, I promise to obey you all my life.

If you do not wish me to marry poor Leon, I will renounce him.

I love him devotedly, nevertheless, and a single word from him arouses more emotion in my heart than all the fine things you have said to me." "Good! Very good!" cried the Aunt.

"As for me, sir, although you have never done me the honor to consult me, I will tell you my opinion.