So long as his head is in the clouds, you might take his shoes off, and on he'd walk and never know it; but every now and then he comes out of the clouds all in one moment, without a word of warning, and when he does his eye is on everything, like a bird's.

Then he is so old: he has seen a heap.

Take my word for it, the old are more knowing than the young, let them be as sharp as you like: the old have seen everything.
WE have only heard talk of the most part, with here and there a glimpse.
To know life to the bottom you must live it out, from the soup to the dessert; and that is what the doctor has done, and now he is coming here.

And Mademoiselle Rose will go telling him everything; and if she tells him half what she has seen, your secret will be no secret to that old man." "My secret!" gasped Josephine, turning pale.
"Don't look so, madame: don't be frightened at poor Jacintha.

Sooner or later you MUST trust somebody besides Mademoiselle Rose." Josephine looked at her with inquiring, frightened eyes.
Jacintha drew nearer to her.
"Mademoiselle,--I beg pardon, madame,--I carried you in my arms when I was a child.