What do you think about it, philosopher ?" broke off Schaunard, addressing Colline, who had come in within the last few minutes.
"Ingratitude is the offspring of kindness," observed the philosopher.
"On the other hand," continued Schaunard, "when your mistresses are well dressed, what sort of figure will you cut beside them in your dilapidated costumes?
You will look like their waiting maids.

I do not speak for myself," he broke off, drawing himself up in his nankeen jacket, "for thank heaven, I could go anywhere now." However, despite the spirit of opposition shown by Schaunard, it was once more agreed that the next day all the shops of the neighborhood should be ransacked to the advantage of the ladies.
And, indeed, the next day, at the very moment that we have seen, at the beginning of this chapter, Mademoiselle Mimi wakes up very much astonished at Rodolphe's absence, the poet and his two friends were ascending the stairs, accompanied by a shopman from the Deux Magots and a milliner with specimens.

Schaunard, who had bought the famous hunting horn, marched before them playing the overture to "The Caravan." Musette and Phemie, summoned by Mimi, who was living on the lower floor, descended the stairs with the swiftness of avalanches on hearing the news that the bonnets and dresses had been brought for them.

Seeing this poor wealth spread out before them, the three women went almost mad with joy.

Mimi was seized with a fit of hysterical laughter, and skipped about like a kid, waving a barege scarf.