If the father cares little for his child, he cares less for its mother.

Ah! he has cruelly made me feel that he bought me, and that in marrying me without a 'dot' he was wronged.

I might perhaps have won him to love me, but there's an outside influence against it,--that of a woman, who is over fifty years of age, the widow of a notary, who rules him.

I shall never be free, I know that, so long as he lives.

My life is regulated like that of a queen; my meals are served with the utmost formality; at a given hour I must drive to the Bois; I am always accompanied by two footmen in full dress; I am obliged to return at a certain hour.