Ces mots semblèrent réveiller toute la vertu de Clélia : elle se leva rapidement, se cacha les yeux, et, par les gestes les plus vifs, chercha à lui exprimer qu’elle ne devait jamais le revoir ; elle l’avait promis à la Madone, et venait de le regarder par oubli.
These words seemed to awaken all Clelia's dormant virtue: she rose swiftly, and hid her eyes; and, by the most vivid gestures, sought to express to him that she must never see him again; she had promised this to the Madonna, and had looked at him just now in a moment of forgetfulness.