However, in this society, I am no longer Gerfaut of the Porte-Saint-Martin, but I am the Vicomte de Gerfaut.

Perhaps, with your bourgeois ideas, you do not understand--" "Bourgeois!" exclaimed Marillac, bounding from his seat, "what are you talking about?
Do you wish that we should cut each other's throats before breakfast to-morrow?
Bourgeois! why not grocer?
I am an artist--don't you know that by this time ?" "Don't get angry, my dear fellow; I meant to say that in certain places the title of a Vicomte has still a more powerful attraction than you, with your artistic but plebeian ideas, would suppose in this year of our Lord 1832." "Well and good.

I accept your apology." "A vicomte's title is a recommendation in the eyes of people who still cling to the baubles of nobility, and all women are of this class.

There is something, I know not what, delicate and knightly in this title, which suits a youngish bachelor.

Duke above all titles is the one that sounds the best.