No one could ever make her believe such a thing.

Her poor Sidonie was the victim of an infamous slander.
M.Chebe, for his part, adopted a very lofty tone, with significant phrases and motions of the head, taking everything to himself as was his custom.

How could any one suppose that his child, a Chebe, the daughter of an honorable business man known for thirty years on the street, was capable of Nonsense! Mademoiselle Planus insisted.

It was a painful thing to her to be considered a gossip, a hawker of unsavory stories.

But they had incontestable proofs.