As her Christian name was Joan, M.Moriaz, who set little store by his calendar, sometimes called her Pope Joan, which wounded her deeply.
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Moiseney had two weaknesses; she was a gormand, and she admired handsome men.

Let us understand the case: she knew perfectly well that they were not created for her; that she had no attractions to offer them; that they had nothing to give her.

She admired them naively and innocently, as a child might admire a beautiful Epinal engraving; she would willingly have cut out their likenesses to hang on a nail on her wall, and contemplate while rereading "Gonzalve de Cordue" and "Le Dernier des Cavaliers," her two favourite romances.

At Bergun, during the repast, her brain had been working, and she had made two reflections.