She was barefooted; he gave her yarn and knitting-needles that she might make stockings.

And he made shoes for this unfortunate girl himself, with enormous nails.

He teaches her verses that are easy to understand.

He is afraid of altering her moral beauty by taking her out of the shame where she lives in perfect simplicity and admirable destitution." Le Menil shrugged his shoulders.
"But that Choulette is crazy, and Paul Vence has no right to tell you such stories.

I am not austere, assuredly; but there are immoralities that disgust me." They were walking at random.