But the moment I lose sight of you, my instructions vanish as quickly as that hair on your superior lip, which took such time to perfect.

Alas! you must grow it again immediately.

Use any perfumer's contrivance.

Rowland! I have great faith in Rowland.

Without him, I believe, there would have been many bald women committing suicide! You remember the bottle I gave to the Count de Villa Flor?
"Countess," he said to me, "you have saved this egg-shell from a crack by helping to cover it"-- for so he called his head--the top, you know, was beginning to shine like an egg.