- The Flea: I will spare you the dialog that followed. It related only to female dogs with whom I share a close affinity.
- The Flea: Belle, young, childlike and so lately innocent, had suddenly become a woman of violent passions. Now she lusted for hump without limit, or bounds of decency.
- The Flea: A flea cannot well be supposed to describe human beauty even in those on whom they feed. All I know is that Julia Delmont was a luscious treat to me.
- The Flea: Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.
- The Flea: Belle, left without protectors, readily lent an ear, among other orifices, to the solicitations of dear Father Ambrose and was persuaded to take the veil.