"Girls brought up as you two were, in the constraints and practice of piety, have a thirst for liberty; they desire happiness, and the happiness they get in marriage is never as fine as that they dreamt of.

Such girls make bad wives." "Speak for me," said poor Eugenie, in a tone of bitter feeling, "but respect my sister.

The Comtesse de Vandenesse is happy; her husband gives her too much freedom not to make her truly attached to him.
Besides, if your supposition were true, she would never have told me of such a matter." "It is true," he said, "and I forbid you to have anything to do with the affair.

My interests demand that the man shall go to prison.

Remember my orders." Madame du Tillet left the room.
"She will disobey me, of course, and I shall find out all the facts by watching her," thought du Tillet, when alone in the boudoir.