He said that when speaking of Carlo Dolci's Virgin, and he said she was of the most beautiful Jewish type; if he intended it as a compliment to me, I am very much obliged to him.

Do you think that my eyes are as blue as that of the painted Virgin's.

Monsieur de Gerfaut pretends that there is a strong resemblance." Madame de Bergenheim withdrew her hand so quickly that she pulled out half a dozen or more hairs from her sister-in-law's head, and buried herself up to the chin in the bedclothes.
"Oh! Monsieur de Gerfaut knows how to pay very pretty compliments!" she said.

"And you doubtless are very well pleased to resemble Carlo Dolci's Madonna ?" "She is very pretty!--and then it is the Holy Virgin, you know--Ah! I hear Monsieur de Gerfaut's voice in the garden." The young girl arose quickly and ran to the window, where, concealed behind the curtains, she could see what was going on outside without being seen herself.
"He is with Christian," she continued.

"There, they are going to the library.