... my mother Angele said to her husband, `Why, there's Casimir!' A young man, slender andrather elegant, with a gay expression and a military look, came and shook hands, and answered all ... hands and your alarming beard. . . . And you,dear Sandeau, agreeable and light, like the humming bird of fragrant savannahs!"[13][13] Correspondance: December 1, 1830.The "dear Sandeau, ... for it, and it was from another man that guidance andencouragement came. A husband should be the head and, I do not hesitate to say, the master. Life is aceaseless struggle, and the man who...