human
I find fault with her, I replied,
gpt
Do you think I would receive her, if she deserved all the stones which slander casts at her?
human
I think it is impossible for you to believe any evil.
gpt
Bah! I assure you that you do not show in this case any evidence of penetration. These love-stories which are attributed to her are so little like her! She is a child who does not even know what it is to love!
human
I am convinced of that, madame. Her commonplace coquetry is sufficient evidence of that. I am even ready to swear that the allurements of the imagination or the impulses of passion are wholly foreign to her errors, which thus remain without excuse.
gpt
Oh! mon Dieu! exclaimed Madame de Malouet, clasping her hands,
human
That is precisely what I think, madam; as much one of as of the other.
gpt
Ah! that is really intolerable,