You will find he will be a little stiff towards you at first, but fortunately he has a good heart, and there are always keys wherewith to open a good heart.

It will be no easy matter to win him over to more liberal sentiments, but if we both combine against him, victory will be assured.
"And now we come to the young originals." "Oh," said Fanny, "I shall understand that class better than you do! I know more about them already than I like." "Last of all come the fine gentlemen.

I need not tell you about them either; so we can pass on to the ladies." "Oh yes, let us discuss the ladies by all means!" "First of all comes the wife of the aristocratic _foispan_.

She is a cockered, discontented dame, who has swooned as many times as other women have sighed.

You might stand upon burning embers more comfortably than before her; for you may be sure that she will not approve of anything you may say, do, or even think.