Would he live at the Hotel de Florac? There was an excellent atelier in
the pavilion, with a chamber for his servant. "No! you will be most at
ease in apartments of your own. You will have here but the society of
women. I do not rise till late: and my affairs, my board, call me away
for the greater part of the day. Thou wilt but be ennuyd to play trictrac
with my old father. My mother waits on him. My sister au second is given
up entirely to her children, who always have the pituite. Madame la
Princesse is not amusing for a young man. Come and go when thou wilt,
Clive, my garcon, my son: thy cover is laid. Wilt thou take the portraits
of all the family? Hast thou want of money? I had at thy age and almost
ever since, mon ami: but now we swim in gold, and when there is a louis
in my purse, there are ten francs for thee." To show his mother that he
did not think of the Reformed Religion, Paul did not miss going to mass
with her on Sunday. Sometimes Madame Paul went too, between whom and her
mother-in-law there could not be any liking, but there was now great
civility.
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