such a way as to ensure applause. Besides, he was mistaken about

her, and he would soon see how she would rattle through her part.

By and by it was arranged that the author should make a few changes

in the role of the duchess so as to extend that of Prulliere. The

last-named personage was enraptured. Indeed, amid all the joy which

Nana now quite naturally diffused, Fontan alone remained unmoved.

In the middle of the yellow lamplight, against which the sharp

outline offa, there were twenty thousand francs' worth of POINT