Young imaginations, essentially eager and courageous, like to rove upon these fine living sheets of flesh.

Rose was like a plump partridge attracting the knife of a gourmet.

Many an elegant deep in debt would very willingly have resigned himself to make the happiness of Mademoiselle Cormon.

But, alas! the poor girl was now forty years old.

At this period, after vainly seeking to put into her life those interests which make the Woman, and finding herself forced to be still unmarried, she fortified her virtue by stern religious practices.