"In decking out these ladies with the thousand caprices of fashion, we shall perhaps be guilty of a mistake.

Think on it.

Are you not afraid that when they resemble the engravings in 'The Scarf of Iris,' these splendors will exercise a deplorable influence upon their characters, and does it suit young fellows like us to behave towards women as if we were aged and wrinkled dotards?
It is not that I hesitate about sacrificing fifteen or eighteen francs to dress Phemie; but I tremble.

When she has a new bonnet she will not even recognize me, perhaps.

She looks so well with only a flower in her hair.