Men are like books, often understood and appreciated too late.

Modeste had seen the duke during his fruitless visit to the Vilquins, and many of these reflections passed through her mind as she watched him come and go.

But under the circumstances in which she now found herself, she saw plainly that the courtship of the Duc d'Herouville would save her from being at the mercy of either Canalis.
"I see no reason," she said to Latournelle, "why the Duc d'Herouville should not be received.

I have passed, in spite of our indigence," she continued, with a mischievous look at her father, "to the condition of heiress.

Haven't you observed Gobenheim's glances?
They have quite changed their character within a week.