Such changes are an admission of serfdom.
"Those women were right; there is a great pleasure in being understood," she said to herself, thinking of her treacherous friends.
When the two lovers had gazed around the theatre with that glance that takes in everything, they exchanged a look of intelligence.

It was for each as if some celestial dew had refreshed their hearts, burned-up with expectation.
"I have been here for an hour in purgatory, but now the heavens are opening," said Raoul's eyes.
"I knew you were waiting, but how could I help it ?" replied those of the countess.
Thieves, spies, lovers, diplomats, and slaves of any kind alone know the resources and comforts of a glance.

They alone know what it contains of meaning, sweetness, thought, anger, villainy, displayed by the modification of that ray of light which conveys the soul.

Between the box of the Comtesse Felix de Vandenesse and the step on which Raoul had perched there were barely thirty feet; and yet it was impossible to wipe out that distance.

To a fiery being, who had hitherto known no space between his wishes and their gratification, this imaginary but insuperable gulf inspired a mad desire to spring to the countess with the bound of a tiger.