What astonished her most of all was his complete insincerity; he never uttered a word to the Marechale which was not a lie, or at least a shocking travesty of his point of view, which Mathilde knew so perfectly upon almost every subject.
Ce qui l’étonnait surtout, c’était sa fausseté parfaite ; il ne disait pas un mot à la maréchale qui ne fût un mensonge, ou du moins un déguisement abominable de sa façon de penser, que Mathilde connaissait si parfaitement sur presque tous les sujets.