"Ah, you young girls, that's just like you,--with your peremptory opinions and your ignorance of life.

A man who once deceives a woman was born under the scaffold on which he ought to die." This ridicule stopped Modeste's effervescence for a moment and least, and again there was silence.
"My child," said the colonel, presently, "men in society, as in nature everywhere, are made to win the hearts of women, and women must defend themselves.

You have chosen to invert the parts.

Was that wise?
Everything is false in a false position.

The first wrong-doing was yours.