"Besides, it's very true; those are my ideas." "Ah, you call them ideas," murmured the young man.
"But Mrs.Tristram told me you had been in the army--in your war," said Madame de Cintre.
"Yes, but that is not business!" said Newman.
"Very true!" said M.de Bellegarde.

"Otherwise perhaps I should not be penniless." "Is it true," asked Newman in a moment, "that you are so proud?
I had already heard it." Madame de Cintre smiled.

"Do you find me so ?" "Oh," said Newman, "I am no judge.

If you are proud with me, you will have to tell me.

Otherwise I shall not know it." Madame de Cintre began to laugh.