Do try and invent a new girl.

By Jove, happy thought! I'll go and beseech that stout man to bring the woman he was trotting about the other evening at the Varietes." He referred to the chief clerk, sound asleep in the middle of the drawing room.

Fauchery, afar off, amused himself by following this delicate negotiation.

Vandeuvres had sat himself down by the stout man, who still looked very sedate.

For some moments they both appeared to be discussing with much propriety the question before the house, which was, "How can one discover the exact state of feeling that urges a young girl to enter into the religious life ?" Then the count returned with the remark: "It's impossible.