"Why, I'm sure she thinks as well of you as possible, already." "An opinion founded on seeing me three or four times?
That is putting me off with very little.

I want something more.

I have been thinking of it a good deal, and at last I have decided to tell you.

I should like very much to marry Madame de Cintre." Bellegarde had been looking at him with quickened expectancy, and with the smile with which he had greeted Newman's allusion to his promised request.

At this last announcement he continued to gaze; but his smile went through two or three curious phases.