"I feel sorry for her, if what they say is true," having no other words.
"And what do they say, Monsieur ?" "That she and her father have been socially ostracized.

I should be proud to be her friend." Once the words were gone from him, he saw their silliness.

"A presumptuous statement," he added; "I am an obscure foreigner." "Friendship, Monsieur, is a thing we all should prize, all the more so when it is disinterested." He said rapidly, for fear she might hear his teeth chatter: "They say she is very beautiful.

Tell me what she is like." "I am no judge of what men call beauty.

As to her character, I believe I may recommend that.