Oh! the frames are gilt, and besides, they are very funny; I will put--" "Well done, uncle!" cried Joseph, enchanted; "I'll make you copies of the same dimensions, which you can put into the frames." "But that will take your time, and you will want canvas and colors," said Flore.

"You will have to spend money.

Come, Pere Rouget, offer your nephew a hundred francs for each copy; here are twenty-seven pictures, and I think there are eleven very big ones in the garret which ought to cost double,--call the whole four thousand francs.

Oh, yes," she went on, turning to Joseph, "your uncle can well afford to pay you four thousand francs for making the copies, since he keeps the frames--but bless me! you'll want frames; and they say frames cost more than pictures; there's more gold on them.

Answer, monsieur," she continued, shaking the old man's arm.