It appears _the Rougets_ are highly flattered by the letter.

Madame came and told me so.

Oh! she had on such a dress! I never saw anything so handsome in my life.

Two diamonds in her ears!--two diamonds that cost, Vedie told me, three thousand francs apiece; and such lace! rings on her fingers, and bracelets! you'd think she was a shrine; and a silk dress as fine as an altar-cloth.

So then she said to me, 'Monsieur is delighted to find his sister so amiable, and I hope she will permit us to pay her all the attention she deserves.