But the truth is, you don't know what you want.
The proper thing for a young woman is to get herself well settled, if she has the opportunity.

There are people who think so much of money, that they'd give a child almost to anybody as long as he was rich.

I shouldn't like to see you marry a man as old as myself.' 'I shouldn't care how old he was if I loved him.' 'Nor to a curmudgeon,' continued Michel, not caring to notice the interruption, 'nor to an ill-tempered fellow, or one who gambled, or one who would use bad words to you.

But here is a young man who has no faults at all.' 'I hate people who have no faults,' said Marie.
'Now you must give him an answer to-day or to-morrow.

You remember what you promised me when we were coming home the other day.' Marie remembered her promise very well, and thought that a great deal more had been made of it than justice would have permitted.