When I am old, I shall have the letters to read evenings, and shall weave an allegorical picture with the hair.

I shall hang it before my desk, so as to have before me a souvenir of the adorable creatures who furnished the threads.

I will answer for it that there will be every shade in it from that of Camille Hautier, my first love, who was an albino, to this that I have here." As he spoke, he took out of his pocket a small parcel from which he drew a lock of coal-black hair, which he spread out upon his hand.
"Did you pull this hair from Titania's mane ?" asked Gerfaut, as he drew through his fingers the more glossy than silky lock, which he ridiculed by this ironical supposition.
"They might be softer, I admit," replied Marillac negligently; and he examined the lock submitted to this merciless criticism as if it were simply a piece of goods, of the fineness of whose texture he wished to assure himself.
"You will admit at least that the color is beautiful, and the quantity makes up for the quality.

Upon my word, this poor Reine has given me enough to make a pacha's banner.

Provincial and primitive simplicity! I know of one woman in particular who never gave an adorer more than seven of her hairs; and yet, at the end of three years, this cautious beauty was obliged to wear a false front.