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We saw in a preceding chapter how Madalars went for lars and M Andrea Cavalcanti This announcement, which implied or appeared to imply, the approval of all the persons concerned in this momentous affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readersthem to take one step backward, and to transport thereat catastrophes, into the showy, gilded salon we have before shown thelars In this roo, the banker hihtfully and in evident uneasiness, watching both doors, and listening to every sound When his patience was exhausted, he called his valet "Etienne," said he, "see why Made-rooiven this vent to his ill-hulars had thatrequested an intervieith her father, and had fixed on the gilded drawing-rooularity of this step, and above all its formality, had not a little surprised the banker, who had i first to the drawing-room Etienne soon returned from his errand "Mademoiselle's lady'sher toilette, and will be here shortly"

Danglars nodded, to signify that he was satisfied To the world and to his servants Danglars assuent father This was one of his parts in the popular co,--a make-up he had adopted and which suited hie by paternal actors, who seen froeniality, and from the other showed lips dran in chronic ill-teenial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent ive place to the brutal husband and doirl, who pretends to wish to speak to me, not come into my study? and why on earth does she want to speak to ht over in his brain for the twentieth tienie appeared, attired in a figured black satin dress, her hair dressed and gloves on, as if she were going to the Italian Opera "Well, Eugenie, what is it you ith -room when the study is so comfortable?"