“Je vois en toi quelque chose qui offense le vulgaire.”
“Soupçonner qu'un rival est aimé est déjà bien cruel, mais se voir avouer en détail l'amour qu'il inspire à la femme qu'on adore est sans doute le comble des douleurs.”
“Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.”
“But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.”
“Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her life go by without occupying it with some remarkable deed.”
“It seemed to Julian that there was far too much hair in his wig.”