Would you like to see the receipts and the pawn tickets ?" And Prudence opened the drawer and showed me the papers.
"Ah, you think," she continued, with the insistence of a woman who can say, I was right after all, "ah, you think it is enough to be in love, and to go into the country and lead a dreamy, pastoral life.

No, my friend, no.

By the side of that ideal life, there is a material life, and the purest resolutions are held to earth by threads which seem slight enough, but which are of iron, not easily to be broken.

If Marguerite has not been unfaithful to you twenty times, it is because she has an exceptional nature.

It is not my fault for not advising her to, for I couldn't bear to see the poor girl stripping herself of everything.