You will occupy the other wing; and there will be a separate entrance to your apartments, by another staircase.

Servants, horses, carriages, furniture, such as become a viscount, will be at your service, cost what it may, within forty-eight hours.

On the day of your taking possession, you must look as though you had been installed there for years.

There will be a great scandal; but that cannot be avoided.

A prudent father might send you away for a few months to the Austrian or Russian courts; but, in this instance, such prudence would be absurd.
Much better a dreadful outcry, which ends quickly, than low murmurs which last forever.