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"Take a seat on that sofa, by the side of my little dog. Is he not pretty?" "Very," replied Dupleisis; "but I am more interested in his mistress. We have not met for a week, not, in fact, since two thieves robbed Mr. Reed of a fortune." Dupleisis said this with pointed significance; but the lady preserved the coolest unconcern. "The muse of the foot-lights is the most jealous of mistresses."
"There are several lying near that flower-pot in the corner." The lady looked up. Standing on a chair on the other side, and leaning lazily over the wall, was Armand Dupleisis. "Has Flora proved more attractive than Thalia?"
"Anxious to do so, mademoiselle, but I have not, as yet, collected sufficient material." The retort crimsoned the lady's face, and Dupleisis adroitly covered her confusion by asking her to sing. "What will you say to me, when you speak of yourself as though you were a block of wood?"
I did court the favor of the Minister of War, but it was to put that man in the army. I have watched over him for years, and, by the blessing of God, I will watch over him to the end. He has never known me, nor will he " Suddenly she turned livid, and nervously clasped her hands over her breast. "M. Dupleisis, I regret my inability to be present at the Assembly; but, really, I am engaged."
The letter which caused this display of sagacity was paid for out of my wretched weekly earnings. At the sacrifice of every sou I owned, I came here to thwart the plot it spoke of." Dupleisis glanced at her with an incredulous sneer. "He wrote to Paris for a woman to assist him, what weaklings you men are! and, utterly unable to prevent the larceny, I pretended to be his accomplice.
"Blessed with curiosity," said Mademoiselle, significantly. "Mathematics entirely. If Armand Dupleisis were entering the pearly gates of Paradise, amid the resounding hallelujahs of cherubim and seraphim, he would deliberately count the cost of the entire wardrobe, before he thought of receiving the waters of eternal life." "Mr.
"Their impudence, rather than degeneracy, perhaps should surprise." "Really, M. Dupleisis! I fear you are a cynic. In the gayest promenade in the empire, you are filled with violence. You are a spoiled child looking in at a shop-window and admiring nothing. Are you going to cry with a mouth full of sugar-plums?"
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