Susie and Bettina immediately became part of this little staff.

It was an affair of four-and-twenty hours--of less than four-and-twenty hours, for all passed between eight in the morning and midnight, the day after their arrival in Paris.
Imagine a sort of little 'feerie', in three acts, of which the success increases from tableau to tableau: 1st.

A ride at ten in the morning in the Bois, with the two marvellous grooms imported from America.
2d.

A walk at six o'clock in the Allee des Acacias.
3d.

An appearance at the opera at ten in the evening in Mrs.Norton's box.
The two novelties were immediately remarked, and appreciated as they deserved to be, by the thirty or forty persons who constitute a sort of mysterious tribunal, and who, in the name of all Paris, pass sentence beyond appeal.