You can have only one son-in-law; chose him wisely.

An ambitious man might become a minister, but you would humble your daughter and make her miserable; and if such a man lost his place and fortune he could never recover it.

Yes, I love you," he continued.

"I love you with an unlimited affection; you are far above the mass of petty considerations in which silly women entangle themselves.

Let us understand each other." Flavie was bewildered; she was, however, awake to the extreme frankness of such language, and she said to herself, "He is not a secret manoeuvrer, certainly." Moreover, she admitted to her own mind that no one had ever so deeply stirred and excited her as this young man.
"Monsieur," she said, "I do not know who could have put into your mind so great an error as to my life, nor by what right you--" "Ah! pardon me, madame," interrupted the Provencal with a coolness that smacked of contempt.