"Admit that papa thinks of everything.

If you send your orders this evening to your former dressmaker in Paris, and all your other furnishing people, you shall show yourself eight days hence in all the splendor of an heiress.

Meantime we will install ourselves in the villa.

You already have a pretty horse, now order a habit; you owe that amount of civility to the grand equerry." "All the more because there will be a number of us to ride," said Modeste, who was recovering the colors of health.
"The secretary did not say much," remarked Madame Mignon.
"A little fool," said Madame Latournelle; "the poet has an attentive word for everybody.

He thanked Monsieur Latournelle for his help in choosing the house; and said he must have taken counsel with a woman of good taste.