wheedling manner. He was deeply moved and began blushing as he paid

her back her kisses. Then she cried:

"By God, to think I should have guessed! He's thought about it;

he's waiting for his wife to go off the hooks! Well, well, that's

the finishing touch! Why, he's even a bigger rascal than the

Muffat had resigned himself to "the others." Nowadays he was

trusting to the last relics of his personal dignity in order to

remain "Monsieur" among the servants and intimates of the house, the