The Pasteur read it through without showing the slightest emotion.
"Ah!" he said, when he had finished, "in her way she is quite magnificent, that old witch.

But, surely, one day, unless she repents, she will be accommodated with some particular hell of her own, since there are few worthy to share it with her.

You see, my boy, what she says about Madame.

Well, as I think I told her, that dear wife of mine may have had her foolish moments, like most others, if all the truth were known.

But note this--there is a great difference between those who have foolish moments, of whatever sort, and those who make it their business to seek such moments; further, between those who repent of their errors and those who glory in, and try to continue them.