Judgments are passed on her beauty, her toilet, and her diamonds, but nobody has the opportunity or the leisure to penetrate into the depths of her mind.

A really distinguished woman once said to me, "I feel that I become stupid when I enter these drawing-rooms.

Vacancy seizes me at the very threshold." Another, who had lived in France, regretted, with tears, the absence of those charming friendships, so cheerful and so cordial, that exist between the young married women of Paris.
When the Carnival arrives, it mingles everything without uniting anything.

In truth, one is never more solitary than in the midst of noise and crowds.

Then comes Lent; and then the grand comedy of Easter; and after that the family departs for the country, which means, economizing for some months in a huge half-furnished mansion.
In short, the romance of a Roman Princess is made up of a certain number of noisy winters, and dull summers, and plenty of children.