What sympathy could she have with these distinguished personages?
At length Jasmin declined to go where his wife could not be invited.

He preferred to stay at home with his family; and all further invitations of this sort were refused.
Besides, his friend Nodier had warned him that a poet of his stamp ought not to appear too often at the feasts of the lazy; that his time was too precious for that; that a poet ought, above all, not to occupy himself with politics, for, by so doing, he ran the risk of injuring his talent.
Some of his local critics, not having comprehended the inner life of Jasmin, compared his wife to the gardener of Boileau and the maid-servant of Moliere.

But the comparison did not at all apply.

Jasmin had no gardener nor any old servant or housekeeper.

Jasmin and Marie were quite different.