She was to be met with at the shops, leaning on his arm.

Labordette even got in the servants--Charles, a great, tall coachman, who had been in service with the Duc de Corbreuse; Julien, a little, smiling, much-becurled butler, and a married couple, of whom the wife Victorine became cook while the husband Francois was taken on as porter and footman.

The last mentioned in powder and breeches wore Nana's livery, which was a sky-blue one adorned with silver lace, and he received visitors in the hall.

The whole thing was princely in the correctness of its style.
At the end of two months the house was set going.

The cost had been more than three hundred thousand francs.