"I had no need of mentioning your name.
Besides, had I not promised absolute secrecy ?" "Ah, that's all right," cried old Tabaret.

"And what do you think sir, of Noel ?" "His is, I am sure, a noble, worthy heart," said the magistrate; "a nature both strong and tender.

The sentiments which I heard him express here, and the genuineness of which it is impossible to doubt, manifested an elevation of soul, unhappily, very rare.

Seldom in my life have I met with a man who so won my sympathy from the first.

I can well understand one's pride in being among his friends." "Just what I said; he has precisely the same effect upon every one.