Have we been seen, Madame la Comtesse?
The village was quiet, as you came through ?" "Quiet as my poor husband in his grave.

Tell me, Abbe, now, honestly, am I thinner?
I have deprived myself of coffee these two days." The Abbe walked gravely round her.

It was quite an excursion.
"Who would have you different, Madame, to what you are ?" he temporized.
"To be thin is so ungenerous.

And Albert--where is he?
You have not surely come alone ?" "Heaven forbid!--and I a widow!" replied Madame de Chantonnay, arranging, with a stout hand, the priceless lace on her dress.

"Albert is coming.