They take such keen delight in small pleasures that to them a little is enough.
The world would account Mam'selle Chaplot to have had a life of toil and stern limitations; a prosperous life, truly, for no one could see her without observing her prosperity, but still a hard dry life.

Even her neighbours, whose ideas of enjoyment do not soar above the St.Armand level, think that her lot would be softer if she married.

Many of the men have offered marriage, not with any disinterested motive, it is true, but with kindly intent.

They have been set aside like children who make requests unreasonable, but so natural for them to make that the request is hardly worth noticing.

The women relatives of these rejected suitors have boasted to mam'selle of their own domestic joys, and have drawn the contrast of her state in strong colour.