Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Et Mademoiselle Lucy est coquette comme dix Parisiennes," he
answered. "A-t-on jamais vu une Anglaise pareille. Regardez plutot son
chapeau, et ses gants, et ses brodequins!" These articles of dress
were just like what my companions wore; certainly not one whit
smarter--perhaps rather plainer than most--but Monsieur had now got
hold of his text, and I began to chafe under the expected sermon. It
went off, however, as mildly as the menace of a storm sometimes passes
on a summer day. I got but one flash of sheet lightning in the shape
of a single bantering smile from his eyes; and then he said,
"Courage!--a vrai dire je ne suis pas fache, peut-etre meme suis je
content qu'on s'est fait si belle pour ma petite fete."