This little incident, common as it is in the intercourse of women, will serve to show with what fury the hounds were after Modeste's wealth.
Ten days saw a great change in the opinions at the Chalet as to the three suitors for Mademoiselle de La Bastie's hand.

This change, which was much to the disadvantage of Canalis, came about through considerations of a nature which ought to make the holders of any kind of fame pause, and reflect.

No one can deny, if we remember the passion with which people seek for autographs, that public curiosity is greatly excited by celebrity.

Evidently most provincials never form an exact idea in their own minds of how illustrious Parisians put on their cravats, walk on the boulevards, stand gaping at nothing, or eat a cutlet; because, no sooner do they perceive a man clothed in the sunbeams of fashion or resplendent with some dignity that is more or less fugitive (though always envied), than they cry out, "Look at that!" "How queer!" and other depreciatory exclamations.

In a word, the mysterious charm that attaches to every kind of fame, even that which is most justly due, never lasts.