Louise de Rénal

She felt for him all the sympathy and even all the admiration which those virtues excite in well-born souls.

If the scene had been Paris, Julien's position towards Madame de Rênal would have been soon simplified.

But at Paris, love is a creature of novels.

The young tutor and his timid mistress would soon have found the elucidation of their position in three or four novels, and even in the couplets of the Gymnase Theatre.

Everything goes slowly.

Everything happens gradually in the provinces where there's far more naturalness.

Madame de Rênal was often overcome to the point of tears when she thought of the young tutor's poverty.

Julien surprised her one day actually crying.