THE PRESIDENT

What does this woman have to recommend her, then? Regular features, I suppose, but quite without expression; a fairly good figure, but she does not move well. And always dressed up in that silly fashion! With all those kerchiefs tied around her bosom and her bodice buttoned right up to her chin! I am telling you this as a friend: two women like that and you would lose all the reputation you have.

(Letter V, The Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont)