He took an extreme satisfaction in hearing that there was something fine in it.

He had not the least doubt of it himself, but he had already begun to value the world's admiration of Madame de Cintre, as adding to the prospective glory of possession.
It was immediately after this conversation that Valentin de Bellegarde came to conduct his friend to the Rue de l'Universite to present him to the other members of his family.

"You are already introduced," he said, "and you have begun to be talked about.

My sister has mentioned your successive visits to my mother, and it was an accident that my mother was present at none of them.

I have spoken of you as an American of immense wealth, and the best fellow in the world, who is looking for something very superior in the way of a wife." "Do you suppose," asked Newman, "that Madame de Cintre has related to your mother the last conversation I had with her ?" "I am very certain that she has not; she will keep her own counsel.
Meanwhile you must make your way with the rest of the family.