I have no nature to be moved or moulded in this fashion.

I might be very fond of a girl, but she'd never drive me mad if she left me for another.' 'I hope she may, then, if it be with such false money you would buy her,' said she fiercely.

'Do you know,' added she, after a pause, 'I was almost on the verge of saying, go and break the stones; the _metier_ is not much beneath you, after all!' 'This is scarcely civil, mademoiselle; see what my candour has brought upon me!' 'Be as candid as you like upon the faults of your nature.

Tell every wickedness that you have done or dreamed of, but don't own to cold-heartedness.

For _that_ there is no sympathy!' 'Let us go back a bit, then,' said he, 'and let us suppose that I did love in the same fervent and insane manner you spoke of, what and how would it help me here ?' 'Of course it would.