But that's not all; if you only knew what comforts you can find there against vexation and worry.

Why, Socquard's boiled wine will make you forget every trouble you ever had.

Fancy! it can make you dream, and feel as light as a bird.

Didn't you ever drink boiled wine?
Then you don't know what life is." The privilege enjoyed by older persons to wet their throats with boiled wine excites the curiosity of the children of the peasantry over twelve years of age to such a degree that Genevieve had once put her lips to a glass of boiled wine ordered by the doctor for her grandfather when ill.
The taste had left a sort of magic influence in the memory of the poor child, which may explain the interest with which she listened, and on which the evil-minded Catherine counted to carry out a plan already half-successful.

No doubt she was trying to bring her victim, giddy from the fall, to the moral intoxication so dangerous to young women living in the wilds of nature, whose imagination, deprived of other nourishment, is all the more ardent when the occasion comes to exercise it.