Why cannot they look after their babies and their needlework?
I suppose you think that these are very dreadful opinions, Monsieur de Laval ?' It was not an easy question to answer, so I was silent.
'You have not at your age become a practical man,' said the Emperor.
'You will understand then.

I dare say that I thought as you do at the time when the stupid Parisians were saying what a misalliance the widow of the famous General de Beauharnais was making by marrying the unknown Buonaparte.

It was a beautiful dream! There are nine inns in a single day's journey between Milan and Mantua, and I wrote a letter to my wife from each of them.

Nine letters in a day--but one becomes disillusioned, monsieur.

One learns to accept things as they are.' I could not but think what a beautiful young man he must have been before he had learned to accept things as they are.