I intend that my husband shall be my government." "So that you may have the pleasure of governing your government ?" "Besides, I know Camille too well.

I could only fall in love with a stranger," said she, heedless of the last sally.
"Was not the Viscount R--- a stranger ?" "At the end of five minutes I knew him by heart.

He is precisely like all other second secretaries of legation in the world.

You may be sure that there is not a single idea in his head that is really his own.

Even his figure does not belong to himself; it is the _chef-d'oeuvre_ of the united efforts of his tailor and his shirt-maker." "According to this, a prime requisite in the man whom you could love is to be poorly clad." "If ever my heart is touched, it will be because I have met a man who is not like all the other men of my acquaintance.