Come, Jean, do a good action, take me to Mrs.Scott's to-day." "I cannot, I assure you." "Well, then, in ten days; but I give you fair notice, I shall install myself at Longueval, and shall not move.

In the first place it would please my mother; she is still a little prejudiced against the Americans.

She says that she shall arrange not to see them, but I know my mother.

Some day, when I shall go home in the evening and tell her: 'Mother, I have won the-heart of a charming little person who is burdened with a capital of twenty millions--they exaggerate when they talk of hundreds of millions.

You know these are the correct figures, and they are enough for me.