It's true: to be a woman is to be nearly always ailing." He did not notice that she was pale, with dark rings round her eyes.

He desired her so ardently; he no longer saw her.
"They are very sensitive to pain," he said, "but they are also very sensitive to pleasure.

Do you know Claude Bernard ?" "No." "He was a great scientist.

He said that he didn't hesitate to recognize woman's supremacy in the domain of physical and moral sensibility." Nantueil; unhooking her stays, replied: "If he meant by that that all women are sensitive, he was indeed an old greenhorn.

He ought to have seen Fagette; he would soon have discovered whether it was easy to get anything out of her in the domain--how did he express it ?--of physical and moral sensibility." And she added with gentle pride: "Don't you make any mistake, Robert, there's not such a heap of women like myself." As he was drawing her into his arms, she released herself.
"You are hindering me." Sitting down and doubling herself up in order to undo her boots, she continued.
"Do you know, Dr.Socrates told me the other day that he had seen an apparition.