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"Let me speak with you, in the picture-gallery, in half an hour." Before I could utter my assent she had passed on, and was speaking to another. Somewhat curious to conceive what Mademoiselle de Lacostellerie might mean by her appointment in the gallery, I avoided the groups where I perceived my acquaintances were, and strolled negligently on towards the place of meeting.
You may be sure she is not particularly in love with the present Government on this score; but the trick secures her speaking more guardedly than she has the habit of doing, besides inducing her to make acquaintances nothing but such a threat would accomplish." "You intend, then, she should know Madame de Lacostellerie?" "Of course.
Like most of the salons of the new aristocracy, Madame Lacostellerie received people of every section of party and every class of political opinion.
I admired Mademoiselle de Lacostellerie greatly; she was, perhaps, the very handsomest girl I ever saw; there was not one in the whole range of Parisian society so much sought after; and there was a degree of distinction in being accounted even among the number of her admirers.
"This would be a very high compliment, indeed," replied Madame de Lacostellerie, with a flush of evident pleasure on her cheek, "had it even come from one less known than the Chevalier Duchesne. I hope the Duchesse de Montserrat is well, your aunt, if I mistake not?" "Yes, Madame," said he, "in excellent health; it will afford her great pleasure when I inform her of your polite inquiry."
But, for the present, I am about to leave Paris; some friends in the South have been kind enough to invite me to visit them, and I start this afternoon." We shook hands once more, and Duchesne moved towards the door; then, turning suddenly about, he said, "Apropos of another matter, this Mademoiselle de Lacostellerie. "What of her?" said I, with some curiosity in my tone.
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