Some days before the party mentioned by Georges, Pere Cardot had spent the sum of forty-five thousand francs in fitting up for his Florentine the former apartment of the late Coralie.

In Paris there are suites of rooms as well as houses and streets that have their predestinations.

Enriched with a magnificent service of plate, the "prima danseuse" of the Gaiete began to give dinners, spent three hundred francs a month on her dress, never went out except in a hired carriage, and had a maid for herself, a cook, and a little footman.
In fact, an engagement at the Opera was already in the wind.

The Cocon d'Or did homage to its first master by sending its most splendid products for the gratification of Mademoiselle Cabirolle, now called Florentine.

The magnificence which suddenly burst upon her apartment in the rue de Vendome would have satisfied the most ambitious supernumerary.