Francois, one of the footmen, was passing up the bottles while La Faloise, trying hard to imitate a coster's accents, kept pattering away: "'Ere y're, given away, given away! There's some for everybody!" "Do be still, dear boy," Nana ended by saying.

"We look like a set of tumblers." She thought him very droll and was greatly entertained.

At one moment she conceived the idea of sending Georges with a glass of champagne to Rose Mignon, who was affecting temperance.

Henri and Charles were bored to distraction; they would have been glad of some champagne, the poor little fellows.

But Georges drank the glassful, for he feared an argument.