CHAPTER XVII.
OF GIRLS AND FLOWERS.
Mr.Abel Newt was not a philosopher; he was a man of action.
He told his mother that he could not accompany her to the Springs, because he must prepare himself to enter the counting-room of his father.
But the evening before she left, Mrs.Newt gave a little party for Mrs.
Plumer, of New Orleans.

So Miss Grace, of whom his mother had written Abel, and who was just about leaving school, left school and entered society, simultaneously, by taking leave of Madame de Feuille and making her courtesy at Mrs.Boniface Newt's.
Madame de Feuille's was a "finishing" school.

An extreme polish was given to young ladies by Madame de Feuille.

By her generous system they were fitted to be wives of men of even the largest fortune.

There was not one of her pupils who would not have been equal to the addresses of a millionaire.