Blanche.
"Yes, very," she replied.
This aunt, or cousin, rather, was a poor relation whom M.de Courtornieu had sheltered, and who was forced to pay dearly for her bread; since Mlle.

Blanche compelled her to play the part of echo.
"It grieves me to see these friendly relations, which were so dear to me, broken," resumed Mlle.

de Courtornieu.

"But listen to what Marie-Anne has written." She drew from her belt where she had placed it, Mlle.

Lacheneur's letter and read: "'My dear blanche--You know that the Duc de Sairmeuse has returned.