The idea of having this gentleman mixed up with his wooing and wedding was more and more disagreeable to him.
But Newman had resolved to go through the mill, as he imagined it, and he would not cry out at the first turn of the wheel.

He was silent a while, and then he said, with a certain dryness which Valentin told him afterwards had a very grand air, "I am much obliged to you." "I take note of the promise," said Valentin, "I register the vow." M.de Bellegarde began to gaze at the cornice again; he apparently had something more to say.

"I must do my mother the justice," he resumed, "I must do myself the justice, to say that our decision was not easy.

Such an arrangement was not what we had expected.

The idea that my sister should marry a gentleman--ah--in business was something of a novelty." "So I told you, you know," said Valentin raising his finger at Newman.
"The novelty has not quite worn away, I confess," the marquis went on; "perhaps it never will, entirely.