Two furious matchmakers--our country, beautiful France, abounds in them--met one day; they were a comtesse and a baronne, and they settled the alliance.
The bell was rung, and Renee came out of school.

There is this to be said: she has no mother; the sooner a girl without a mother has a husband the better.

That we are all agreed upon.

I have no personal objection to the marquis; he has never been in any great scandals.

He is Norman, and has estates in Normandy, Dauphiny, Touraine; he is hospitable, luxurious.