But there is in the feminine type which I have just sketched something more shocking than immorality itself, which, however, it is rather difficult to separate from it.

And so, notwithstanding my desire of not making myself conspicuous in anything, I have been unable to take upon myself to join the throng of admirers whom Madame de Palme drags after her triumphal car.

I know not whether "Le tyran dans sa cour remarqua mon absence:" I am sometimes tempted to believe it, from the glances of astonishment and scorn with which I am overwhelmed when we meet; but it is more simple to attribute these hostile symptoms to the natural antipathy that separates two creatures as dissimilar as we are.

I look at her at times, myself, with the gaping surprise which must be excited in the mind of any thinking being by the monstrosity of such a psychological phenomenon.

In that way we are even.