9/14 Here, look! It's horrible, I know; but what can we do? In short, what I meant to tell you is that you still have all that is necessary, and even more than is necessary, to fix a husband--if indeed there are any that can be fixed, which I hope is the case--otherwise, we should have to despair wholly of Providence, if it did not have some compensation in store for us after all our trials. It is already a manifest sign of its kindness that you should have recovered your _embonpoint_, my darling! Kiss your mother. Come, now, when is our pretty little woman going to be married ?" There was no maternal exaggeration whatever in the compliments which the baroness was addressing to Clotilde. All Paris looked upon her with the same eyes as her mother. |