Chapter

 1 7 |        know her; it was my only means of making up my mind about
 2 8 | milliner's shop. I saw in her a means of meeting with Marguerite,
 3 10|    knows what that sort of love means." ~"There you are mistaken.
 4 11|      said, in a tone that by no means reassured me as to her pleasure
 5 12|        that we say to them, the means we use; they have sold the
 6 13|       you can't tell me by what means?" ~"No, only love me as
 7 13|      What does that mean?" ~"It means that I have a strong suspicion
 8 15|         insisted on knowing the means. Well, good heavens, the
 9 15|         Well, good heavens, the means were easy enough to guess!
10 15|       of Marguerite Gautier the means which she used to pay her
11 15|      which is not lucrative. It means little enough to them that
12 16| existence which gave me an easy means of satisfying the thousand
13 16|        and say nothing." ~"That means," said Prudence, "that when
14 17|        the uselessness of these means, he could hold out no longer;
15 18|         am. Will you?" ~"By all means, if you like, Marguerite,
16 18|     beginning. Let her find the means to get out of this difficulty.
17 20|     woman whom he keeps, by all means; but that you should come
18 20|    spend on her account what my means allow me to spend; I have
19 21|      him. I do not know what it means. He was not at his hotel,
20 21|       with tears. ~I used every means to make her confess the
21 23|      and I only sought for some means of avenging myself on the
22 25|        whether this mutual love means happiness to him and redemption
23 25|     prove it to him by the sole means which remains to you of
24 26|         little upset, but by no means surprised. ~Then began that
25 26|       have recourse to physical means in order not to go mad,