"They will think you are mad." "What did Marguerite say after I had gone ?" "She laughed, and said she had never seen any one so funny.

But don't look upon it as a lost chance; only do not do these women the honour of taking them seriously.

They do not know what politeness and ceremony are.

It is as if you were to offer perfumes to dogs--they would think it smelled bad, and go and roll in the gutter." "After all, what does it matter to me ?" I said, affecting to speak in a nonchalant way.

"I shall never see this woman again, and if I liked her before meeting her, it is quite different now that I know her." "Bah! I don't despair of seeing you one day at the back of her box, and of bearing that you are ruining yourself for her.