Besides, I have not deceived you about it; if ribbons were not so dear I should still be with my painter.

As to my heart, since I have worn an eighty franc corset I do not hear it, and I am very much afraid that I have left it in one of Marcel's drawers." The disappearance of the three Bohemian households was the occasion of a festival in the house they had inhabited.

As a token of rejoicing the landlord gave a grand dinner, and the lodgers lit up their windows.
Rodolphe and Marcel went to live together.

Each had taken a new idol whose name they were not exactly acquainted with.

Sometimes it happened that one spoke of Musette and the other of Mimi, and then they had a whole evening of it.