human
How well Mademoiselle Cicogna looked last night!
gpt
Did she? It seemed to me that, in health at least, she did not look very well. Have you heard what day M. Thiers will speak on the war?
human
Thiers? No. Who cares about Thiers? Thank heaven his day is past! I don't know any unmarried woman in Paris, not even Valerie--I mean Mademoiselle Duplessis--who has so exquisite a taste in dress as Mademoiselle Cicogna. Generally speaking, the taste of a female author is atrocious.
gpt
Really--I did not observe her dress. I am no critic on subjects so dainty as the dress of ladies, or the tastes of female authors.
human
Pardon me, said the beau Marquis, gravely.
gpt
As to dress, I think that so essential a thing in the mind of woman, that no man who cares about women ought to disdain critical study of it. In woman, refinement of character is never found in vulgarity of dress. I have only observed that truth since I came up from Bretagne.