Throw Celimene into the current of genuine passion--I do not mean the brutality of Alceste--I will wager that coquetry will be swept away by love.

I had such faith in mine that I thought to be able to fix the moment when I should call myself victorious and sure of being obeyed.
"You know that sadness and ennui were considered etiquette last winter, in a certain society, which was thrown into mourning by the July revolution.

Reunions were very few; there were no balls or soirees; dancing in drawing-rooms to the piano was hardly permissible, even with intimate friends.

When once I was installed in Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's drawing-room upon a friendly footing, this cessation of worldly festivities gave me an opportunity to see Clemence in a rather intimate way.
"It would take too long to tell you now all the thousand and one little incidents which compose the history of all passions.

Profiting by her coquetry, which made her receive me kindly in order to make me expiate my success afterward, my love for her was soon an understood thing between us; she listened to me in a mocking way, but did not dispute my right to speak.