The world wasn't lost for her because she loved--either a cause or a man--but because she wanted change and excitement.

If she had felt on the abstract question as I have known women to feel, even when they have acted like fools, I should pity her more.

As it is, the lesson was necessary.

If she had not married rashly an Italian _birbante_ she would have married rashly an English blackguard, and I myself see small difference in the kinds.

With _you_, however, to your mind, it is different; and in this view of yours seems to me to lie the main fault of your book.