"Obliger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confessed, the Marquis does not get out of the difficulty too well. She has slipped into her father's formal note the highly Sensible postscript, "Vous dire de m'oublier? Ah! Jamais. On m'a force de l'ecrire; rien ne peut m'obliger a le penser ni le desirer." Apparently it was not leap-year, for the Marquis replied in a letter nearly as bad as Willoughby's celebrated ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury |
