The things we do!

I have the honour to count of my friends the parents of the young lady of
whom you have spoken. You never could have intended to say that a young
miss who lives under the guardianship of her parents, and is obedient to
them, whom you meet in society all the nights, and at whose door your
carriage is to be seen every day, is capable of that with which you
charge her so gaily. These things say themselves, monsieur, in the
coulisses of the theatre, of women from whom you learn our language; not
of young persons pure and chaste, Monsieur de Farintosh! Learn to respect
your compatriots; to honour youth and innocence everywhere, monsieur! and
when you forget yourself, permit one who might be your father to point
where you are wrong."
"And what did he answer?" asked the Countess.
"I attended myself to a soufflet," replied Florac; "but his reply was
much more agreeable. The young insulary, with many blushes and a gros
juron, as his polite way is, said he had not wished to say a word against
that person.


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