Though Suzanne is a fair specimen of those handsome Norman women whom a learned physician reckons as comprising one third of her fallen class whom our monstrous Paris absorbs, it must be stated that she remained in the upper and more decent regions of gallantry.

At an epoch when, as Monsieur de Valois said, Woman no longer existed, she was simply "Madame du Val-Noble"; in other days she would have rivalled the Rhodopes, the Imperias, the Ninons of the past.

One of the most distinguished writers of the Restoration has taken her under his protection; perhaps he may marry her.

He is a journalist, and consequently above public opinion, inasmuch as he manufactures it afresh every year or two..