“You know we come about that lottery.”
“Yes: I know, I know.”
“Oh! we cannot sit down. We have to call at twenty houses yet.”
“Come now, you are not going to run away at once!”
And then the visitors finished by sitting down on the edge of a couch; the chatter beginning again, shriller than ever.
“Well! what do you think of yesterday at the Vaudeville?”
“Oh! it was splendid!”
“You know she unfastens her dress and lets down her hair. All the effect springs from that.”
“People say that she swallows something to make her green.”
“No, no, every action is premeditated; but she had to invent and study them all, in the first place.”