Only you know, Violette, it will be another education to be learned over again.

He must begin at the very beginning and follow the regular course.

Oh! the boy will not be badly treated! He may take his meals with us, is not that so, Berenice?
At first he would be obliged to run about a little, as I did when I came from the province to work in the shop and tie up parcels." M.Violette looked at his son and saw that he was blushing with shame.
The poor man understood his mistake.

What good to have dazzled M.Patin before the whole University by reciting, without hesitation, three verses of Aristophanes, only to become a drudge and a packer?
Well! so Amedee would yawn over green boxes and guess at enigmas in the Illustration.

It had to be so.
They took leave of Uncle Isidore.
"We will reflect over it, Monsieur Gaufre, and will come to see you again." But Berenice had hardly shut the door upon them when M.Violette said to his son: "Nothing is to be expected of that old egotist.