The great artist has painted Nautch girls twisting their floating scarves, and jugglers throwing poignards into the air.

Around the room are low divans, covered with soft and brilliant Oriental cloth.
The chandelier is quite original in form, being the exact representation of the god Vishnu.

From the centre of the body hangs a lotus leaf of emeralds, and from each of the four arms is suspended a lamp shaped like a Hindu pagoda, which throws out a mellow light.
Madame Desvarennes was entertaining her visitors in these celebrated apartments that evening.

Marechal and Pierre had just come in, and were talking together near the fireplace.

A few steps from them was a group, consisting of Cayrol, Madame Desvarennes, and a third person, who had never until then put his foot in the house, in spite of intercessions in his favor made by the banker to Madame Desvarennes.