“Seventeen.”
“Pretty?”
“Charming.”
“I’ll take charge of her establishment.”
Roland began to laugh.
“What’s the matter?” demanded the First Consul.
“General, I’m going to put a placard over the grand entrance to the Luxembourg.”
“What will you put on the placard?”
“‘Marriages made here.’”
“Why not? Is it any reason because you don’t wish to marry for your sister to remain an old maid? I don’t like old maids any better than I do old bachelors.”