Attractive abyss of drunkenness
     Obstinacy of drunkenness

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     Antipathy for her husband bordering upon aversion
     Attractions that difficulties give to pleasure
     Attractive abyss of drunkenness
     Consented to become a wife so as not to remain a maiden
     Despotic tone which a woman assumes when sure of her empire
     Evident that the man was above his costume; a rare thing! 
     I believed it all; one is so happy to believe! 
     It is a terrible step for a woman to take, from No to Yes
     Lady who requires urging, although she is dying to sing
     Let them laugh that win! 
     Let ultra-modesty destroy poetry
     Love is a fire whose heat dies out for want of fuel
     Mania for fearing that she may be compromised
     Material in you to make one of Cooper’s redskins
     Misfortunes never come single
     No woman is unattainable, except when she loves another
     Obstinacy of drunkenness
     Recourse to concessions is often as fatal to women as to kings
     Regards his happiness as a proof of superiority
     She said yes, so as not to say no
     These are things that one admits only to himself
     Those whom they most amuse are those who are best worth amusing
     Topics that occupy people who meet for the first time
     Trying to conceal by a smile (a blush)
     When one speaks of the devil he appears
     Wiped his nose behind his hat, like a well-bred orator
     You are playing ‘who loses wins!’

CONSCIENCE

By Hector Malot

With a Preface by Edouard Pailleron, of the French Academy

HECTOR MALOT

Hector-Henri Malot, the son of a notary public, was born at La Brouille (Seine-Inferieure), March 20, 1830.  He studied law, intending to devote himself also to the Notariat, but toward 1853 or 1854 commenced writing for various small journals.  Somewhat later he assisted in compiling the ‘Biographie Generale’ of Firmin Didot, and was also a contributor to some reviews.  Under the generic title of ‘Les Victimes d’Amour,’ he made his debut with the following three family-romances:  ’Les Amants (1859), Les Epoux (1865), and Les Enfants (1866).’  About the same period he published a book, ‘La Vie Moderne en Angleterre.’  Malot has written quite a number of novels, of which the greatest is ‘Conscience,’ crowned by the French Academy in 1878.

His works have met with great success in all countries.  They possess that lasting interest which attends all work based on keen observation and masterly analysis of the secret motives of human actions.