MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE — Refuse a maidenhead… asfresh, as
pretty as this—for I defy anyone to say my Eugénie isnot the loveliest girl in France—oh, Monsieur! Monsieur,indeed, that's what I call holding too closely to one'sprinciples!
DOLMANCE — You say I am too scrupulous, Madame? 'Tisunkind. For there are multitudes of my colleagues, stricter intheir worship than I, who most assuredly would not buggeryou… I, I've done it, and would do it again: it is not, thus,as you suspect, a question of carrying my worship to the point offanaticism.
MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE — Well then Chevalier, the task isyours, proceed; but have a little care what you do; consider thenarrowness of the channel you are going to navigate: what of theproportion between the contents and the container?
EUGENIE — Oh, 'twill
