reconciliation, the devil she does! What? You don't see her?

She's squeezing all three of 'em to her heart--my cousin Fauchery,

my lady cousin and her husband, and she's calling 'em her dear

kitties. Oh, those family scenes give me a turn!"

Estelle had come up, and Fauchery complimented her while she stood

stiffly up in her rose-colored dress, gazing at him with the

astonished look of a silent child and constantly glancing aside at

her father and mother. Daguenet, too, exchanged a hearty shake of