To make yourself all that you and she ought to be, you have only to go and live a few years in the Upper or Lower Alps, in some hole of a town where everybody will like you, and your wife will seduce everybody; and this,' I added, 'you cannot fail to obtain, especially if you give your dear Celeste to some man who can influence the Chamber.' Good reasons, stated in jest, have the merit of penetrating deeper into some minds than if they were given soberly.

So Colleville and I became the best friends in the world.
Didn't you hear him say to me at table, 'Rascal! you have stolen my speech'?
To-night we shall be theeing and thouing each other.

I intend to have a choice little supper-party soon, where artists, tied to the proprieties at home, always compromise themselves.

I'll invite him, and that will make us as solidly good friends as he is with Thuillier.
There, my dear adorned one, is what a profound sentiment gives a man the courage to produce.

Colleville must adopt me; so that I may visit your house by his invitation.