Knaves make it their boast that they can readily fathom honest people; the truth is, they only half comprehend them.

Honest people have sentiments, as do certain languages, reputed easy, which are full of mystery, of refined delicacy, inaccessible to the vulgar mind.

A commercial traveller often learns to speak Italian in three weeks, and yet never really knows the language; Samuel Brohl had gained a superficial knowledge of Mlle.

Moriaz in a few days, and yet he was far from having a true comprehension of her.
He arrived at Maisons in the most cheerful, self-satisfied frame of mind.

As he walked through the park, he remembered that Mme.