Your sisters were angry with him because he had not a look for them; but I liked him, because I always used to hear something of you from him.

He was always following you, and I could at least learn from him whether you were well or poorly off.

Oh! that man was positively mad about you!" So we've got as far as this, eh?
Fanny now raised herself on her elbows, and listened to her mother's conversation with something of that shuddering curiosity with which Damiens regarded the wounds made in his body for the reception of the burning oil.
"Oh, what absurdities that gentleman perpetrated!" continued Mrs.Meyer, noisily shifting her pillows from one side to the other.

"The man was not aware that they were laughing at and making fun of him.

Not a day passed without his coming to our house, and he said, over and over again, that if you had been there, he would have made you his wife on the spot.