"Understand me; I can't speak of what happened when I was a child.

But if ever she had a girlish attachment, he has not followed it up, or surely I should have seen something of him all these years." "Of course.

Oh! as for flirtations, let them pass: a lovely girl does not grow up without one or two whispering some nonsense into her ear.
Why, I myself should have flirted no doubt; but I never had the time.
Bonaparte gives you time to eat and drink, but not to sleep or flirt, and that reminds me I have fifty miles to ride, so good-by, sister-in-law, eh ?" "Adieu, brother-in-law." Left alone, Rose had some misgivings.

She had equivocated with one whose upright, candid nature ought to have protected him: but an enemy had accused Josephine; and it came so natural to shield her.

"Did he really think I would expose my own sister ?" said she to herself, angrily.