Such ideas do not so much as occur to them, and I must say that I think the sooner you fall into the ways of other people the better." "There is no harm done," Gervaise said composedly.

"I am not thinking of asking our bailiff to order him to be arrested on suspicion.

I only remarked that I did not like the man's face, nor the way in which, while he pretended to be thinking of nothing, he was trying to overhear what we were saying.

I am quite willing to admit that I have made a mistake, not in devoting myself to Turkish, but in going to the merchant's with you this evening.

I have had no experience whatever of what you call society, and, so far from it giving me pleasure to talk to strangers, especially to women, it seems to me that such talk is annoying to me, at any rate at present.