"Got a headache ?" Newman asked.
"Je suis triste," said Valentin, with Gallic simplicity.
"You are sad, eh?
It is about the lady you said the other night that you adored and that you couldn't marry ?" "Did I really say that?
It seemed to me afterwards that the words had escaped me.

Before Claire it was bad taste.

But I felt gloomy as I spoke, and I feel gloomy still.

Why did you ever introduce me to that girl ?" "Oh, it's Noemie, is it?
Lord deliver us! You don't mean to say you are lovesick about her ?" "Lovesick, no; it's not a grand passion.

But the cold-blooded little demon sticks in my thoughts; she has bitten me with those even little teeth of hers; I feel as if I might turn rabid and do something crazy in consequence.