How was it that this woman, who must have been very pretty--as heknew, and it could still be seen--gifted, too, with a delicate, tenderemotional soul, could have accepted a man so unlike herself as a suitorand a husband?
Comment cette femme, fort jolieautrefois, il le savait et on le voyait encore, douée d'une âmedélicate, affectueuse, attendrie, avait-elle accepté comme fiancé etcomme mari un homme si différent d'elle?