Hence, such successes as I had had with them in such comedies of love as I had been engaged upon had given me a false impression.

But such at least was not my opinion that night.

I was satisfied that Chatellerault talked wildly, and that no such woman lived as he depicted.

Cynical and soured you may account me.

Such I know I was accounted in Paris; a man satiated with all that wealth and youth and the King's favour could give him; stripped of illusions, of faith and of zest, the very magnificence--so envied--of my existence affording me more disgust than satisfaction.