The cook had only her master's breakfast to provide on those days.

This was served at eleven o'clock; after that he dressed and perfumed himself, and departed for Paris.

Usually, a bourgeois gives notice in the household if he dines out; old Cardot, on the contrary, gave notice when he dined at home.
This little old man--fat, rosy, squat, and strong--always looked, in popular speech, as if he had stepped from a bandbox.

He appeared in black silk stockings, breeches of "pou-de-soie" (paduasoy), a white pique waistcoat, dazzling shirt-front, a blue-bottle coat, violet silk gloves, gold buckles to his shoes and his breeches, and, lastly, a touch of powder and a little queue tied with black ribbon.

His face was remarkable for a pair of eyebrows as thick as bushes, beneath which sparkled his gray eyes; and for a square nose, thick and long, which gave him somewhat the air of the abbes of former times.