Sublime

L’héritière de Wierzchownia, née comtesse Rzewuska, doit alors décider si elle peut épouser son moujik et troubadour, génial certes, mais endetté, prodigue, un troubadour sur qui on ne peut faire fond et dont les manières restent incurablement plébéiennes. Il va falloir choisir entre deux aristocraties, celle du sang et de l’argent et celle du géni

Your actions should be determined not by the desire of the people around you, but by the needs of all mankind.

He had been nobody’s toady, neither as a boy nor later in adulthood, but from the youngest age he had been drawn, as a bird to the air, toward people in the upper echelons of society, adopting their affect

some small plump brownish person of firm but quiet carriage, who looks about her, but does not suppose that anybody is looking at her. If she has a broad face and square brow, well-marked eyebrows and curly dark hair, a certain expression of amusement in her glance which her mouth keeps the secret of, and for the rest features entirely insignifican