Chapter

 1 I     |                 I~ ~Dedication~To Madame Emile Girardin.~ ~One of
 2 I     |           birth of a daughter all Madame~de Watteville's grandparents
 3 I     |  stretching to the Rue du Perron. Madame de Watteville,~devout as
 4 I     |         we still say "as~sharp as Madame de Watteville"), some wits
 5 I     |        throughout the~department. Madame de Watteville's fortune
 6 I     |        add that in consequence of Madame de Watteville's close~intimacy
 7 I     |        unearth this lawyer?" said Madame de Watteville. "I~never
 8 I     |        where he~comes from," said Madame de Chavoncourt.~ ~"But who
 9 I     |             But who is he?" asked Madame de Watteville, taking the
10 III   |           generally supposed that Madame de~Watteville, thinking
11 III   |           Watteville's conceit.~ ~Madame de Watteville was in the
12 III   |          Fridays, she~accompanied Madame de Watteville to other houses
13 IV    |      before it becomes a volcano. Madame de Watteville alone,~perhaps,
14 IV    |          you mean by that?" cried Madame de Watteville. "What is
15 IV    |       noble Abbe de Grancey.~ ~ ~"Madame," said Monsieur de Soulas,
16 V     |         he not go to mass?" asked Madame de Chavoncourt.~ ~"He goes
17 V     |          did you learn all that?" Madame de Chavoncourt asked Monsieur
18 V     |               In the first place, madame, I live in the Rue Neuve,
19 V     |          so extraordinary?" asked Madame de Chavoncourt.~ ~"Certainly,
20 V     |        Chavoncourt.~ ~"Certainly, madame," replied the Vicar-General.~ ~"
21 V     |           tell us about it," said Madame de Watteville.~ ~"The first
22 V     |        devil's colors!" exclaimed Madame de Watteville.~ ~"Yes,"
23 V     |           Besancon?" asked pretty Madame de Chavoncourt. "Could no
24 V     |       action, and paid~him," said Madame de Watteville, watching
25 VI    |     during a moment of silence.~ ~Madame de Watteville exchanged
26 VI    |       through a dinner," remarked Madame de Watteville.~ ~"Nor I
27 VII   |     shammed simplicity to deceive Madame de~Watteville.~ ~From that
28 VII   |           your father does," said Madame de Watteville~drily, "and
29 VII   |          an excellent idea," said Madame de Watteville,~who forthwith
30 VII   |       thousand crowns!" exclaimed Madame de Chavoncourt.~ ~"Yes,
31 VII   |         done in that house," said~Madame de Chavoncourt sourly, as
32 VII   |     discussion~that mid-winter at Madame de Chavoncourt's.~ ~
33 VIII  |       according to the critics of Madame de Chavoncourt's drawing-~
34 IX    |           company of Monsieur and Madame Stopfer,~retired coopers
35 IX    |          since, with monsieur and~Madame Bergmann, the retired head-gardeners
36 IX    |          belong?" he asked worthy Madame~Bergmann.~ ~"To the English,"
37 IX    |        her from the Indies," said Madame Bergmann.~ ~"I have been
38 XI    |                A reflection? Nay, madame, I meant it for praise."~ ~"
39 XII   |          Empire, with~Bourrienne, Madame Murat, Madame d'Abrantis /
40 XII   |         Bourrienne, Madame Murat, Madame d'Abrantis /e tutte quanti/.~
41 XIV   |         been seventeen years with~Madame de Watteville, who valued
42 XVII  |        she read the address:~ ~To Madame la Duchesse d'Argaiolo~(
43 XVII  |           accompany her mother to Madame de~Chavoncourt's; and as
44 XX    |          you were thinking?" said Madame de Watteville.~ ~"Why, yes,
45 XXI   |        they so little practise.~ ~Madame de Chavoncourt, at this
46 XXI   |       grows quite charming!" said Madame de Watteville.~ ~Two months
47 XXIII |       Hotel de Rupt you will meet Madame de~Chavoncourt and her second
48 XXIII |         will have a struggle with Madame de Chavoncourt; she will
49 XXIII | Legitimist voters; I have secured Madame de~Watteville, and that
50 XXIII |           won over the~young men; Madame de Watteville will get the
51 XXIII |          on earth has gained over Madame de Chavoncourt?" asked~Savarus.~ ~"
52 XXIII |           mine. Some one has told Madame de Chavoncourt that she
53 XXIII |      Paris. That some one manages Madame de Chavoncourt,~and Madame
54 XXIII |        Madame de Chavoncourt,~and Madame de Chavoncourt manages her
55 XXIV  |       party, who want everything.~Madame de Chavoncourt has no suspicion
56 XXIV  |       have~confided in no one but Madame de Watteville, whom we may
57 XXIV  |         supposed, by nine o'clock Madame la~Baronne de Watteville'
58 XXIV  |           presented that evening. Madame de Chavoncourt was there
59 XXIV  |           Albert had not arrived. Madame de Watteville was~disposed
60 XXIV  |           My dear Baroness," said Madame de Chavoncourt, "do not
61 XXIV  |     Rosalie shot a side glance at Madame de Chavoncourt.~ ~ ~"She
62 XXIV  |      persons remained, among them~Madame de Chavoncourt and the Abbe
63 XXIV  |        Monsieur de Savarus?" said Madame de~Chavoncourt.~ ~At this
64 XXV   |   carriage that used~to belong to Madame de Saint-Vier before she
65 XXVI  |      never occurred to you," said Madame de Watteville, "that this~
66 XXVI  |        quarrel thus begun between Madame de Watteville and her husband,~
67 XXVI  |           thirty thousand francs. Madame de~Watteville was told that,
68 XXVI  |     Rouxey, deputed, no doubt, by Madame de~Watteville and Monsieur
69 XXVI  |         the former Ambassador, to Madame la Duchesse~d'Argaiolo, /
70 XXVI  |          doctor and~surgeon. When Madame de Watteville arrived, eight
71 XXVI  |         never have happened, said Madame de~Watteville, if her husband
72 XXVII |        Albert~succeeded in seeing Madame d'Argaiolo, at Florence,
73 XXVIII|         shall beseech Him to give Madame de Rhetore a life of happiness.~
74 XXVIII|           no longer stood between Madame de Watteville and her~daughter,
75 XXVIII|          the month of August 1837~Madame de Watteville was married
76 XXVIII|          sweetness to her mother. Madame de Watteville believed in~
77 XXVIII|      perfectly free," she said.~ ~Madame de Soulas, who had been
78 XXVIII|          the Eastern provinces.~ ~Madame de Soulas has two children,