and velvets, gradually filled him with such a feeling of admiration

that it set his heart beating. When Zoe came down to fetch him she

offered to show him the other rooms, the dressing room, that is to

say, and the bedroom. In the latter Mignon's feelings overcame him;

he was carried away by them; they filled him with tender enthusiasm.

That damned Nana was simply stupefying him, and yet he thought he

knew a thing or two. Amid the downfall of the house and the

servants' wild, wasteful race to destruction, massed-up riches still