Oh, yes, I will.

It will teach you to treat me with the respect that is my due." "I hope I shall never fail in that." "Less than ever when you learn that I am very closely concerned in the visit of M.de La Tour d'Azyr.

I am the object of this visit." And she looked at him with sparkling eyes and lips parted in laughter.
"The rest, you would seem to imply, is obvious.

But I am a dolt, if you please; for it is not obvious to me." "Why, stupid, he comes to ask my hand in marriage." "Good God!" said Andre-Louis, and stared at her, chapfallen.
She drew back from him a little with a frown and an upward tilt of her chin.

"It surprises you ?" "It disgusts me," said he, bluntly.