A girl of nineteen beginning already to deceive the world! But they are all tarred with the same stick.

Down with the aristocrats!" "Dard," said Riviere, "you are a brute." "Me, citizen ?" inquired Dard with every appearance of genuine surprise.
Edouard Riviere rose from his seat in great excitement.

Dard's abuse of the family he was lately so bitter against had turned him right round.
He pitied the very baroness herself, and forgave her declining his visit.
"Be silent," said he, "for shame! There is such a thing as noble poverty; and you have described it.

I might have disdained these people in their prosperity, but I revere them in their affliction.

And I'll tell you what, don't you ever dare to speak slightly of them again in my presence, or"-- He did not conclude his threat, for just then he observed that a strapping girl, with a basket at her feet, was standing against the corner of the Auberge, in a mighty careless attitude, but doing nothing, so most likely listening with all her ears and soul.