He had been watching for more than an hour for the pleasure of seeing the Americans pass.
"You are mistaken," said Susie to Bettina; "there is some one." "A peasant; they don't count; they won't ask me to marry them." "It is not a peasant at all.

Look!" Paul de Lavardens, while passing the carriage, made the two sisters a highly correct bow, from which one at once scented the Parisian.
The ponies were going at such a rate that the meeting was over like a flash of lightning.
Bettina cried: "Who is that gentleman who has just bowed to us ?" "I had scarcely time to see, but I seemed to recognize him." "You recognized him ?" "Yes, and I would wager that I have seen him at our house this winter." "Heavens! if it should be one of the thirty-four! Is all that going to begin again ?".