"'ADRIENNE RENNEPONT DE CARDOVILLE.
"'Distantly related (without knowing it) to Jacques Rennepont, alias Sleepinbuff, and Gabriel Rennepont, missionary priest.

She will soon be twenty-one years of age, the most attractive person in the world--extraordinary beauty, though red-haired--a mind remarkable for its originality--immense fortune--all the animal instincts.

The incredible independence of her character makes one tremble for the future fate of this young person.

Happily, her appointed guardian, Baron Tripeaud (a baron of 1829 creation, formerly agent to the late Count of Rennepont, Duke of Cardoville), is quite in the interest, and almost in the dependence, of the young lady's aunt.

We count, with reason, upon this worthy and respectable relative, and on the Baron Tripeaud, to oppose and repress the singular, unheard-of designs which this young person, as resolute as independent, does not fear to avow--and which, unfortunately, cannot be turned to account in the interest of the affair in question--for--" Rodin was here interrupted by two discreet taps at the door.