"He is old and wealthy.

Go and see your former friend, and get her to give you a line of introduction to him, saying he would do her an eminent favor if he would give a piece of friendly advice to the bearer of the note, and then you and I will take it to him to-morrow about one o'clock.

But tell Tullia she must request her uncle to keep secret about it.

Go, my dear.

Celeste, our dear child, will be a millionaire! I can't say more; but she'll have, from me, a husband who will put her on a pinnacle." "Do you want me to tell you the first letters of his name ?" "Yes." "T.