Did it strike you that I behaved very oddly the other day ?" "Rather so," said Newman.
"So my sister tells me." And M.de Bellegarde watched his host for a moment through his smoke-wreaths.

"If that is the case, I think we had better let it stand.

I didn't try to make you think I was a lunatic, at all; on the contrary, I wanted to produce a favorable impression.
But if, after all, I made a fool of myself, it was the intention of Providence.

I should injure myself by protesting too much, for I should seem to set up a claim for wisdom which, in the sequel of our acquaintance, I could by no means justify.

Set me down as a lunatic with intervals of sanity." "Oh, I guess you know what you are about," said Newman.
"When I am sane, I am very sane; that I admit," M.de Bellegarde answered.