The count, with racked limbs and vacant brain, got into a conveyance with Nana, while Labordette took Fauchery off and comforted him.
A month later the first night of the Petite Duchesse proved supremely disastrous to Nana.

She was atrociously bad and displayed such pretentions toward high comedy that the public grew mirthful.

They did not hiss--they were too amused.

From a stage box Rose Mignon kept greeting her rival's successive entrances with a shrill laugh, which set the whole house off.

It was the beginning of her revenge.