But she'll never find it out." "We must do him the justice to suppose he doesn't like the thing," Valentin rejoined.

"Mademoiselle Nioche is like the great artists whose biographies we read, who at the beginning of their career have suffered opposition in the domestic circle.

Their vocation has not been recognized by their families, but the world has done it justice.
Mademoiselle Nioche has a vocation." "Oh, come," said Newman, impatiently, "you take the little baggage too seriously." "I know I do; but when one has nothing to think about, one must think of little baggages.

I suppose it is better to be serious about light things than not to be serious at all.

This little baggage entertains me." "Oh, she has discovered that.