"A woman that has been married is always more admired than a meess." "Sophie, might I ask you and Captain Clavering to be a little less personal ?" "There is noting I hate so much as your meeses," continued Madam Gordeloup; "noting! Your English meesses give themselves such airs.

Now in Paris, or in dear Vienna, or in St.Petersburg, they are not like that at all.

There they are nobodies--they are nobodies; but then they will be something very soon, which is to be better.

Your English meess is so much and so grand; she never can be greater and grander.

So when she is a mamma, she lives down in the country by herself, and looks after de pills and de powders.