Chapter

 1 1 |          of visitors, both men and women, and the women, though they
 2 1 |        both men and women, and the women, though they were dressed
 3 1 |           there is one thing which women in society would like to
 4 1 |             and there were society women there), it is the home of
 5 1 |            it is the home of those women whose carriages splash their
 6 1 |            so the most virtuous of women could enter even her bedroom.
 7 1 |          an unbounded sympathy for women of this kind, and I do not
 8 2 |            though the life of such women makes sensation enough,
 9 2 | distinction quite apart from other women of her kind, a distinction
10 2 |       information in regard to the women whom they accompany. ~In
11 3 |        able to see, close at hand, women whom they might never have
12 3 |         mere talent twice what the women of the world make by their
13 3 |          perhaps save, and, as old women say when they offer you.
14 5 |        constantly about with known women, I asked him: "Did you know
15 5 |            apart for these sort of women, like there is for the poor.
16 7 |          little one may have known women like Marguerite, one can
17 7 |       chance; only do not do these women the honour of taking them
18 7 |            being seen, saw the two women pass me, accompanied by
19 8 |         name) was one of those fat women of forty with whom one requires
20 9 |            of those looks in which women sum up their opinion of
21 9 |            something ridiculous." ~Women are pitiless toward those
22 10|          that is all very well for women with families and friends;
23 11|          in her a woman like other women, and, with the vanity so
24 12|            same with these unhappy women when they love seriously.
25 12|           said to myself also that women have two ways of loving,
26 12|       ruined by actresses and kept women; what astonishes me is that
27 13|            do you suppose the kept women in Paris could live in the
28 13|            I have lived with these women for twenty years; I know
29 14|        with a woman like all other women of the kind. I had been
30 14|       reasoning which permits many women to have many lovers. At
31 14|      Marguerite was not like other women, for there are few who would
32 14|       hideous frankness of certain women, that she had to see a lover;
33 14|          letting herself love you. Women sometimes allow you to be
34 15|            things unknown to other women; I repeat, then, that on
35 15|           All those who come about women like me have an interest
36 15|           in their esteem. We have women who call themselves our
37 15|         are friends like Prudence, women who were once kept and who
38 16|      capricious, and, like so many women, she never regarded as a
39 16|          Prudence was one of those women who seem made on purpose
40 17|            always en fete, all the women whom she knew came to see
41 17|           impertinent mirth of the women who were assembled there. ~
42 17|         what it was about. The two women shut themselves into a boudoir,
43 18|            of one's heart to other women, and one can not believe
44 18|       Marguerite had said. The two women went for a walk in the garden,
45 18|             my dear Armand, I know women better than you do; do not
46 18|            she had just shown me; "women like Marguerite always foresee
47 20|         except in perfectly chaste women. Every Manon can have her
48 20|           go about converting lost women? Do you think that God has
49 20|            noble as the noblest of women. There is as much disinterestedness
50 25|         generosity unknown to many women who perhaps despise you,
51 26|       importance to making love to women like me for it to be an
52 26|        able to remain friends with women, not hating them because
53 26|          them. At Paris there were women in better health, and not
54 27|            the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable