For my own, of course, I'm spotted like a leopard.

But on Madame Merle's nothing, nothing, nothing!" "That's just what I think!" said Isabel with a toss of her head.

"That is why I like her so much." "She's a capital person for you to know.

Since you wish to see the world you couldn't have a better guide." "I suppose you mean by that that she's worldly ?" "Worldly?
No," said Ralph, "she's the great round world itself!" It had certainly not, as Isabel for the moment took it into her head to believe, been a refinement of malice in him to say that he delighted in Madame Merle.

Ralph Touchett took his refreshment wherever he could find it, and he would not have forgiven himself if he had been left wholly unbeguiled by such a mistress of the social art.