Let us go." The Hotel du Roule was famous in Paris, and I had not been there yet.

The woman who kept it had furnished the place with great elegance, and she always had twelve or fourteen well-chosen nymphs, with all the conveniences that could be desired.

Good cooking, good beds, cleanliness, solitary and beautiful groves.

Her cook was an artist, and her wine-cellar excellent.

Her name was Madame Paris; probably an assumed name, but it was good enough for the purpose.