I tell you plainly, his marriage would be his ruin!" "You speak very strongly, madam.

Do you object to the young lady ?" "Not I; a harmless insignificant creature--nothing more and nothing less.
It's her vile mother that I object to." "As I have heard, Frau Meyer, there are two sides to that question.

Fritz is persuaded that Madame Fontaine is an injured woman.

He assures me, for instance, that she is the fondest of mothers." "Bah! What does _that_ amount to?
It's as much a part of a woman's nature to take to her child when she has got one, as it is to take to her dinner when she is hungry.

A fond mother?
What stuff! Why, a cat is a fond mother!--What's the matter ?" _A cat is a fond mother._ Another familiar phrase--and this time a phrase remarkable enough to lead my memory back in the right direction.