In plain words, you could not see a man come into the drawing-room without wishing to make him fall in love with you.

We want to monopolize genius--you to monopolize the love of man.

You have the mania of loving, more common than it is suspected, especially by those who would have us believe that good society is a fold where snowy lambs are led about from the cradle to the butcher's shambles, by pastors carrying crooks decked with sky blue ribbons.

The feeling is a craving in you--an involuntary and invincible instinct which was to have its inevitable end.

You turned from a man who sincerely loved you to make a conquest of another whose heart was engaged." "Stop!" interrupted Cesarine, triumphantly for she had detected genuine feeling the last tone used by the living enigma.