At the end of two months the house was set going. The cost had been

more than three hundred thousand francs. There were eight horses in

the stables, and five carriages in the coach houses, and of these

five one was a landau with silver embellishments, which for the

moment occupied the attention of all Paris. And amid this great

wealth Nana began settling down and making her nest. After the

third representation of the Petite Duchesse she had quitted the

theater, leaving Bordenave to struggle on against a bankruptcy