How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"[Our] worth, de Croisenois and I, has now been weighed, and the scale favors the poor carpenter from the Juras." (2.13.40)
As a guy who has always had a grudge against rich people, Julien loves that fact that Mathilde de La Mole prefers him to de Croisenois, a duke's son. How do you like them apples, upper class France?
Quote #8
"He's nothing but a commoner, after all […] His name will always remind me of the greatest mistake of my life. I need to follow, most faithfully, all those popular notions of wisdom, restraint, and honor: a woman has everything to lose, forgetting them." (2.25.37)
Mathilde de La Mole almost immediately regrets sleeping with Julien. First of all, the guy is nothing but a peasant and she's the daughter of a powerful marquis. What would happen to her if she got pregnant? Oh. Oops.
Quote #9
Yet for all these finely tuned arguments, the marquis' soul found it hard to abandon hope of a duchess's title for his daughter. (2.33.45)
The Marquis de La Mole has a tough time accepting that his pregnant daughter wants to marry a poor commoner. He really wants her to raise herself in Paris society by marrying a duke. But it looks like those hopes have all been dashed.