“A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids.”
“Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.”
“A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.”
“The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")”
“She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.”
“it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl.”