The things we do!

Florac's proprietor will ask Moncontour to-morrow for five
weeks' rent; and as for Florac's friends, my dear, they will burst out
laughing to Moncontour's nose!" "How droll you English are!" this acute
French observer afterwards said, laughing, and recalling the incident.
Did you not see how that little Barnes, as soon as he knew my title of
Prince, changed his manner and became all respect towards me? This,
indeed, Monsieur de Florac's two friends remarked with no little
amusement. Barnes began quite well to remember their pleasant days at
Baden, and talked of their acquaintance there: Barnes offered the Prince
the vacant seat in his brougham, and was ready to set him down anywhere
that he wished in town.
"Bah!" says Florac; "we came by the steamer, and I prefer the peniboat."
But the hospitable Barnes, nevertheless, called upon Florac the next day.
And now having partially explained how the Prince de Moncontour was
present at Mr. Barnes Newcome's wedding, let us show how it was that
Barnes's first-cousin, the Earl of Kew, did not attend that ceremony.


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