“You expect him back soon?”
“Oh, not for three or four years.”
“That is a very long separation for two brothers, who probably were never parted before.”
“Yes, and particularly if they love each other as we do.”
“No doubt he will come to see you before he finishes his studies?”
“Probably; he has promised us so much, at least.”
“In any case, nothing need prevent you from paying him a visit?”
“No, I never leave Corsica.”
There was in his tone, as he made this reply, that love of country which astonishes the rest of the universe.
I smiled.