For the first two days she said not a word to me upon the subject.

On the third day, she returned me my letter, accompanying it with a few exhortations which froze my blood.

I attempted to speak, but my words expired upon my lips; my sudden passion was extinguished with my hopes, and after a declaration in form I continued to live with her upon the same terms as before, without so much as speaking to her even by the language of the eyes.
I thought my folly was forgotten, but I was deceived.

M.de Francueil, son to M.Dupin, and son-in-law to Madam Dupin, was much the same with herself and me.

He had wit, a good person, and might have pretensions.
This was said to be the case, and probably proceeded from his mother-in-law's having given him an ugly wife of a mild disposition, with whom, as well as with her husband, she lived upon the best of terms.