"What do you think might be my reason for concealing the will--if I did conceal it ?" "The answer seems obvious.

Why does the wild ass forage with a strange herd, or the pig put his feet in the trough?
Not for his neighbour's gain, Madame, not in a thousand years." "Monsieur, I have never been spoken to so coarsely.

I am a blacksmith's daughter, and I have heard rough men talk in my day, but I have never heard a man--of my own race at least--so rude to a woman.

But I am here not for my own sake; I will not go till I have said and done all I have come to say and do.

Will you listen to me, Monsieur ?" "I have made my charges--answer them.