The _vraisemblance_ is never for a moment violated, which makes the reader imagine he is perusing a true narration instead of a fiction.
House-hunting to-day.

Went again over the Hotel Monaco, but its dilapidated state somewhat alarms us.

The suite of reception rooms are magnificent, but the garden into which they open pleases me still more, for it is vast and umbrageous.

The line old hotels in the Faubourg St.-Germain, and this is one of the finest, give one a good idea of the splendour of the _noblesse de l'ancien regime_.

The number and spaciousness of the apartments, the richness of the decorations, though no longer retaining their pristine beauty, and above all, the terraces and gardens, have a grand effect..