"You see, wealth and glory smile on me, let love do the same!" * * * * * The following morning, by means of a masculine disguise, which Sidonia procured for him, Rodolphe was enabled to escape from his uncle's lodging.

He ran to the secretary of the academy of floral games, to receive a crown of gold sweetbrier, worth three hundred francs, which lived "-- as live roses the fairest-- The space of a day." A month after, Monsieur Monetti was invited by his nephew to assist at the first representation of "The Avenger." Thanks to the talent of Mademoiselle Sidonia, the piece had a run of seventeen nights, and brought in forty francs to its author.
Some time later--it was in the warm season--Rodolphe lodged in the Avenue St.Cloud, third tree as you go out of the Bois de Boulogne, on the fifth branch..