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302 two large glass presses built into the wall, a tea urn, vessels, all the accessories of the table in English electro-plate which does duty for silverplate. As for plate, in the true sense of the word, there are in the house only fourteen spoons and five forks, one soup spoon, six dessert spoons, and eleven little coffee spoons.

"But he does not know that."

", decked out by her lady's-maid, Citizeness Louise Compoint, leaves her room and hurries to the dining-room to greet this visitor who is to lead to fortune! She can hardly receive him anywhere else, for the ground floor contains, besides this dining-room, only a little drawing-room which she has turned into a dressing-room, and her own bedroom. This bedroom is pretty but simple, with its upholstery of blue chintz, with red and yellow tufts, its sofa, some tasteful articles of furniture in mahogany and rosewood; its only artistic object is a little marble bust of Socrates, standing near a harp, by Renaud. As for the dressing-room, except a grand piano by Bernard, there is nothing in it but mirrors; a mirror on the large dressing-table, a mirror on the mahogany chest of drawers, on the night table, and on the mantel-piece a mirror composed of two little glasses.