No; I invite you to visit us.

I offer you the most select but not the most brilliant circles of Paris, because my wife is religious, and frightens away the birds of gay plumage with the scarecrows of priests and bishops.

But if you accept my invitation and my offer, I am bound, as an old man of the world to a young kinsman, to say that the chances are that you will be ruined." "I thank you, Count, for your candour; and I now acknowledge that I have found a relation and a guide," answered the Marquis, with nobility of mien that was not without a pathos which touched the hard heart of the old man.
"Come at least whenever you want a sincere if a rude friend;" and though he did not kiss his cousin's cheek this time, he gave him, with more sincerity, a parting shake of the hand.
And these made the principal events in Alain's Paris life till he met Frederic Lemercier.

Hitherto he had received no definite answer from M.
Gandrin, who had postponed an interview, not having had leisure to make himself master of all the details in the abstract sent to him..