"There are not two women like her in Paris.

Some are as clever as she, but there's not one so gracefully witty.

Many women may even be handsomer, but it would be hard to find one with such variety of beauty.

Madame Rabourdin is far superior to Madame Colleville," said the vaudevillist, remembering des Lupeaulx's former affair.

"Flavie owes what she is to the men about her, whereas Madame Rabourdin is all things in herself.