Child, thrice child, only remember that I love you, and don't let anything disturb you.

Now, is it agreed ?" "I agree to all you wish, as you know." "Then, in less than a month's time we shall be in some village, walking by the river side, and drinking milk.

Does it seem strange that Marguerite Gautier should speak to you like that?
The fact is, my friend, that when this Paris life, which seems to make me so happy, doesn't burn me, it wearies me, and then I have sudden aspirations toward a calmer existence which might recall my childhood.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

Don't be alarmed; I am not going to tell you that I am the daughter of a colonel on half-pay, and that I was brought up at Saint-Denis.