After a long silence, he said to Antoinette, "You want to frighten me--this is not serious." "Do you dislike M.Larinski ?" she asked.
"Certainly not; I by no means dislike him.

He has good manners, he speaks well, and I must acknowledge that he had a very graceful way of taking me from off my rock, where I should still be had it not been for him.

I am grateful to him for it; but, from that to giving him my daughter, there is a wide margin.

If he wanted me to give him a medal he should have it." "Let us talk seriously," said she.

"What objections have you to make ?" "First, M.Larinski is a stranger, and I mistrust strangers.