Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.