With lifted chin and reddened cheek she shot this sentence at me from the edge of a lip disdainfully puckered: "There are such things as 'successes of esteem,' sir!" Alas! I knew that well, and I had no need of this additional lesson to teach me the rudeness of my remark, to make me feel that I was a brute, an idiot, hopelessly lost in the opinion of M.Charnot and his daughter.
It was cruel, all the same.

Nothing was left for me but to hurry my departure.

I got up to go.
"But," said M.Charnot in the smoothest of tones, "I do not think we have yet discussed the question that brought you here." "I should hesitate, sir, to trespass further on your time." "Never mind that.

Your question concerns ?" "The costume of the Latini Juniani." "Difficult to answer, like most questions of dress.

Have you read the work, in seventeen volumes, by the German, Friedchenhausen ?" "No." "You must have read, at any rate, Smith, the Englishman, on ancient costume ?" "Nor that either.