Felicie's health is not bad, but she must not overdo it.

She often has fits of giddiness, and sick headaches." The servant came in to place on the table a dish of fried sausage, a bottle of wine, and a few plates.
Meanwhile, Chevalier was searching in his mind for some appropriate fashion of asking a question which had been on the tip of his tongue ever since he had set foot on the stairs.

He wanted to know whether Felicie was still meeting Girmandel, whose name he never heard mentioned nowadays.

We are given to conceiving desires which suit themselves to our condition.

Now, in the misery of his existence, in the distress of his heart, he was full of an eager desire that Felicie, who loved him no longer, should love Girmandel, whom she loved but little, and he hoped with all his heart that Girmandel would keep her for him, would possess her wholly, and leave nothing of her for Robert de Ligny.