One of his neighbours, a lady of quality, had two daughters who were perfect beauties.
Perhaps he'll be killed; but then if he isn't, he'll never give us these beauties as wives.'
"The second Ballade possesses beauties in no way inferior to those of the first," he continues.
In some things nature has lavished upon them charms and beauties which no human skill can imitate.
"About that," said I, with an inward chuckle, for I, of course, did not tell Henriette of eight beauties I had kept out of the returns for myself.
A sharp experience had made him as thoroughly a man of the world as a man may be; but it had not made him callous or indifferent to the beauties of life.
Soon after, the ladies took their places, and made the porter sit down by them, who was overjoyed to see himself seated with three such admirable beauties.