"Damn it all, people really don't come to see 'turns' like that! If the woman had talent, even; but she has none and never will have any. Ton my soul, Paris is not such a fool as people make out. Society does not consist exclusively of imbeciles. This little lady evidently believed that she was going to take Paris by surprise. But Paris is not so easily surprised as all that, and there are still some things that they can't make us swallow."