Chapron was too fanatical a friend to be a very equitable brother.

It seemed to him very simple and very legitimate that his sister should be at the service of the genius of Lincoln, as he himself was.

Moreover, if, since the marriage with her brother's friend, his sister had been stirred by the tempest of a moral tragedy, Florent did not suspect it.

When had he studied Lydia, the silent, reserved Lydia, of whom he had once for all formed an opinion, as is the almost invariable custom of relative with relative?
Those who have seen us when young are like those who see us daily.

The images which they trace of us always reproduce what we were at a certain moment--scarcely ever what we are.