"A man's sternness is to us our only pardon." "This is not the first time that I read your noble heart," said the count.

"A woman who thinks as you do needs no watching." "Watching!" she said; "another shame that recoils on you." Felix smiled, but Marie blushed.

When women are secretly to blame they often show ostensibly the utmost womanly pride.

It is a dissimulation of mind for which we ought to be obliged to them.

The deception is full of dignity, if not of grandeur.